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This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

1This letter is from Paul, a missionary of Messiah Yeshua by God’s will, and from our brother Timothy.

2To the people there in Colossae who’re godly and faithful brothers and sisters in Messiah.

Grace and peace to you all from God our father and the master Yeshua Messiah.

1:3 Paul’s thanks and prayers

3We thank God the father of our master Yeshua Messiah as we continually pray for you all, 4after having heard about your faith in Messiah Yeshua and the love that you have for all godly people 5which arose because of your hope in a heavenly reward. You all previously heard about that in the message of the truth—the good message 6that’s in you and that is bearing fruit in the world and growing, just like it did among all of you from the day that you heard it and knew about the grace of God in truth. 7[ref]You all learnt that from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave and who is our faithful servant of the messiah, 8and he is the one who made your love in the spirit evident to us.

9It’s because of that that we haven’t stopped praying from the time that we heard it, and requesting that you all would be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, 10to live worthily of the masterpleasing him in every kind of good and productive work. We pray that you all will grow in the knowledge of God 11and be strengthened with all power, according to his great power, leading to endurance and patience with contentment. 12Then you’ll all be thanking the father, the one who qualified you all for a part of the inheritance of godly people who live in the light. 13The father rescued us from the power of darkness and redirected us into the kingdom of his dear son— 14[ref]the one who buys us out of slavery and forgives our sins.

1:15 Yeshua is both the first and the highest

15The son is the visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation 16because it was him who created everything in the heavens and on the earth, both visible and invisible, including all authorities such as kingdoms and governments. Yes, everything was created by him and for him. 17He came before everything and everything still only exists because of him. 18[ref]He is the head of the body which is the assembly. He is the beginning, the first of the dead to come back to life, so that he would be the first in everything, 19because God was pleased to live in him in all totality 20[ref]and to reconcile everything to himself through him—both things on earth and things in the heavens. God made peace through him by means of the blood at the execution stake.

21Once all of you were alienated from God—your thinking was that of an enemy and your actions were evil, 22but now you all have been reconciled by means of the death of Yeshua’s physical body. He’s able to present you as pure and blameless in front of God—unable to be charged for any infraction 23if indeed you continue on in your established and firm faith. Don’t let anyone drive away the hope that comes from the good message that you all heard and which has been proclaimed throughout the whole world—it’s that good message that I’ve become a servant of.

1:24 Paul’s work for believers

24So now I’m happy to be suffering for you all, and I’m catching up in my body to the tribulations of the messiah in his body, which is the assembly. 25I became a servant of the assembly under God’s supervision when he gave me the work of fulfilling God’s message 26the mystery which had been hidden away from the generations over the ages, but which was recently revealed to his chosen people. 27God wanted them to explain the riches of the this incredible mystery among the pagans: the messiah in you all bringing the hope of reaching God. 28Yes, Messiah who we are telling everyone about as we teach and recommend to everyone, so they we might present every person made perfect in Messiah. 29That’s what I’m working hard towards according to his work as well—working in me with power.


1:7: Col 4:12; Phm 23.

1:14: Eph 1:7.

1:18: Eph 1:22-23.

1:20: Eph 2:16.

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