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| Niobi Study Bible(EN) | 2 | Colossians | 1 |  |
1Greeting; Above All, Devote Yourself to Christ<br/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy <n>(Timotheus)</n> our brother, 
2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ, who are at Colossae: Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3Their <n>(Your)</n> Faith in Christ<br/>We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have for all the saints,
5for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
6which has come unto you, as it has in all the world, and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you since the day you heard of it and knew the grace of God in truth .
7You also learned of it from Epaphras , our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ,
8who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit .
9Preeminence of Christ<br/>For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10that you might walk worthy of the Lord, in all pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God ;
11strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12giving thanks unto the Father , who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
13He has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son <n>(of His love)</n>,
14in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.
16For by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him.
17And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
18And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning , the firstborn from the dead, that in <n>(among)</n> all things He might have the preeminence.
19Reconciled in Christ<br/>For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell,
20and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself -- by Him, I say, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven.
21And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, even now has He reconciled
22in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight,
23if you continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which you have heard and which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am made a minister.
24Sacrificial Service for Christ<br/>I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for His body's sake, which is the church,
25of which I am made a minister according to the dispensation <n>(grace)</n> of God, which is given to me for you, to fulfill <n>(preach)</n> the Word of God --
26even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints.
27To them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in <n>(among)</n> you, the hope of glory.
28Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
29for which I also labor , striving according to His working, which works in me mightily .
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