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1 : 1 Paul,an apostle of Christ Jesusby the will of God, and Timothyour brother,
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1 : 2 To thesaints and faithful brothersin Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
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1 : 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
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1 : 4 since we heard ofyour faith in Christ Jesus and ofthe love that you have for all the saints,
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1 : 5 because ofthe hopelaid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before inthe word of the truth, the gospel,
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1 : 6 which has come to you, as indeedin the whole world it isbearing fruit and increasing&emdash;as it also does among you, since the day youheard it and understoodthe grace of God in truth,
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1 : 7 just as you learned it fromEpaphras our belovedfellow servant.He isa faithful minister of Christ on yourbehalf
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1 : 8 and has made known to us yourlove in the Spirit.
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1 : 9 And so,from the day we heard,we have not ceased to pray for you, asking thatyou may be filled with the knowledge of his will in allspiritual wisdom and understanding,
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1 : 10 so asto walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,fully pleasing to him,bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
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1 : 11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, forall endurance and patiencewith joy,
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1 : 12 giving thanksto the Father, who has qualified youto share inthe inheritance of the saints in light.
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1 : 13 Hehas delivered us fromthe domain of darkness and transferred us tothe kingdom ofhis beloved Son,
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1 : 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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1 : 15 He is the image ofthe invisible God,the firstborn of all creation.
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1 : 16 For byhim all things were created,in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whetherthrones ordominions or rulers or authorities&emdash;all things were createdthrough him and for him.
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1 : 17 Andhe is before all things, and in him all thingshold together.
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1 : 18 Andhe is the head of the body, the church. He isthe beginning,the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
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1 : 19 Forin him all thefullness of God was pleased to dwell,
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1 : 20 andthrough him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven,making peaceby the blood of his cross.
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1 : 21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind,doing evil deeds,
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1 : 22 he has now reconciledin his body of flesh by his death,in order to present you holy and blameless andabove reproach before him,
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1 : 23 if indeed you continue in the faith,stable and steadfast, not shifting fromthe hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimedin all creationunder heaven,and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
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1 : 24 NowI rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my fleshI am filling upwhat is lacking in Christ's afflictionsfor the sake of his body, that is, the church,
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1 : 25 of which I became a minister according tothe stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,
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1 : 26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
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1 : 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles arethe riches of the glory ofthis mystery, which is Christ in you,the hope of glory.
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1 : 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, thatwe may present everyonemature in Christ.
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1 : 29 For thisI toil,strugglingwith all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
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