\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Colossians}
{\MT Paul’s Letter to the Colossians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul,
an
apostle
of
Jesus
Christ,
by
the
will
of
God,
and
Timothy,
a
brother,
\VS{2}To
the
saints
and
faithful
brethren
in
Christ
Jesus,
who
are
at Colossa.
\VS{3}Grace
be
to
you
and peace
from
God
our
Father,
and
from
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
We
give
thanks
to
God,
and
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
praying
always
for
you.
\VS{4}Hearing
your
faith
in
Christ
Jesus,
and
the
love
which
you
have towards
all
the
saints.
\VS{5}For
the
hope
that
is
laid up
for
you
in
heaven,
which
you
have
heard
in
the
word
of
the
truth
of
the
gospel,
\VS{6}Which
is
come unto
you,
as
also
it
is
in
the
whole
world,
and bringeth forth
fruit
and groweth,
even
as
it doth
in
you,
since
the
day
you
heard
and
knew
the
grace
of
God
in
truth.
\VS{7}As
you
learned
of
Epaphras,
our
most
beloved
fellow
servant,
who
is
for
you
a
faithful
minister
of
Christ
Jesus;
\VS{8}Who
also hath manifested
to
us
your
love
in
the
spirit.
\VS{9}Therefore
we
also,
from
the
day
that
we
heard
it,
cease
not
to
pray
for
you,
and
to
beg
that
you
may
be
filled
with
the
knowledge
of
his
will,
in
all
wisdom,
and
spiritual
understanding:
\VS{10}That
you
may
walk
worthy
of
God,
in
all
things pleasing; being fruitful
in
every
good
work,
and
increasing
in
the
knowledge
of
God:
\VS{11}Strengthened
with
all
might,
according
to
the
power
of
his
glory,
in
all
patience
and longsuffering
with
joy,
\VS{12}Giving
thanks
to
God
the
Father,
who hath
made
us worthy
to
be partakers
of
the
lot
of
the
saints
in
light:
\VS{13}Who hath
delivered
us
from
the
power
of
darkness,
and hath translated
us
into
the
kingdom
of
the
Son
of
his
love,
\VS{14}In
whom
we
have
redemption
through
his blood,
the remission
of
sins;
\VS{15}Who
is
the
image
of
the
invisible
God,
the
firstborn
of
every
creature:
\VS{16}For
in
him
were
all
things
created
in
heaven
and
on
earth,
visible
and
invisible,
whether
thrones,
or dominations,
or
principalities,
or
powers:
all
things
were
created
by
him
and
in
him.
\VS{17}And
he
is
before
all,
and
by
him
all
things
consist.
\VS{18}And
he
is
the
head
of
the
body,
the
church,
who
is
the
beginning,
the
firstborn
from
the
dead;
that
in
all
things
he
may hold
the primacy:
\VS{19}Because
in
him,
it hath
well
pleased
the Father,
that
all
fullness should
dwell;
\VS{20}And
through
him
to
reconcile
all
things unto
himself, making
peace
through
the
blood
of
his
cross,
both
as
to
the
things
that
are
on
earth,
and
the
things
that
are
in
heaven.
\VS{21}And
you,
whereas
you
were
some
time
alienated
and
enemies
in
mind
in
evil
works:
\VS{22}Yet
now
he hath
reconciled
in
the
body
of
his
flesh
through
death,
to
present
you
holy
and unspotted,
and
blameless
before
him:
\VS{23}If
so ye
continue
in
the
faith,
grounded
and settled,
and immoveable
from
the
hope
of
the
gospel
which
you
have
heard,
which
is
preached
in
all
the
creation
that
is
under
heaven, whereof
I
Paul
am
made
a
minister.
\VS{24}Who
now
rejoice
in
my
sufferings
for
you,
and fill
up
those
things
that
are wanting
of
the
sufferings
of
Christ,
in
my
flesh,
for
his
body,
which
is
the
church:
\VS{25}Whereof
I
am
made
a
minister
according
to
the dispensation
of
God,
which
is
given
me towards
you,
that
I
may
fulfill
the
word
of
God:
\VS{26}The
mystery
which hath
been
hidden
from
ages
and
generations,
but
now
is
manifested
to
his
saints,
\VS{27}To
whom
God
would
make
known
the
riches
of
the
glory
of
this
mystery
among
the
Gentiles,
which
is
Christ,
in
you
the
hope
of
glory.
\VS{28}Whom
we preach,
admonishing
every
man,
and
teaching
every
man
in
all
wisdom,
that
we
may
present
every
man
perfect
in
Christ
Jesus.
\VS{29}Wherein
also
I labour,
striving
according
to
his
working
which
he worketh
in
me
in
power.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
I
would
have
you
know,
what manner
of care
I
have
for
you
and
for
them
that
are
at
Laodicea,
and whosoever
have
not
seen
my
face
in
the
flesh:
\VS{2}That
their
hearts
may
be
comforted, being instructed
in charity,
and unto
all
riches
of fulness
of
understanding, unto
the
knowledge
of
the
mystery
of
God
the Father
and
of
Christ
Jesus:
\VS{3}In
whom
are hid
all
the
treasures
of
wisdom
and
knowledge.
\VS{4}Now
this
I
say,
that
no
man
may deceive
you
by loftiness
of words.
\VS{5}For
though
I
be
absent
in
body,
yet
in
spirit
I
am
with
you;
rejoicing,
and beholding
your
order,
and
the steadfastness
of
your
faith
which
is
in
Christ.
\VS{6}As
therefore
you
have
received
Jesus
Christ
the
Lord,
walk ye
in
him;
\VS{7}Rooted
and
built
up
in
him,
and
confirmed
in
the
faith,
as
also
you
have learned,
abounding
in
him
in
thanksgiving.
\VS{8}Beware
lest
any
man cheat
you
by
philosophy,
and
vain
deceit;
according
to
the
tradition
of
men,
according
to
the
elements
of
the
world,
and
not
according
to
Christ:
\VS{9}For
in
him dwelleth
all
the fulness
of
the Godhead corporeally;
\VS{10}And
you
are
filled
in
him,
who
is
the
head
of
all principality
and
power:
\VS{11}In
whom
also
you
are
circumcised
with
circumcision
not
made
by hand,
in despoiling
of
the
body
of
the
flesh,
but
in
the
circumcision
of
Christ:
\VS{12}Buried
with
him
in
baptism,
in
whom
also
you
are
risen
again
by
the
faith
of
the operation
of
God,
who hath
raised
him
up
from
the
dead.
\VS{13}And
you,
when
you
were
dead
in
your
sins,
and
the
uncircumcision
of
your
flesh;
he hath quickened
together
with
him,
forgiving
you
all offences:
\VS{14}Blotting
out
the handwriting
of
the
decree
that
was
against
us,
which
was
contrary
to
us.
And
he hath
taken
the
same
out
of
the
way, fastening
it
to
the
cross:
\VS{15}And despoiling
the
principalities
and
powers,
he hath exposed
them
confidently
in open shew, triumphing
over
them
in
himself.
\VS{16}Let
no
man
therefore
judge
you
in meat
or
in
drink,
or
in
respect
of
a
festival
day,
or
of
the new moon,
or
of
the
sabbaths,
\VS{17}Which
are
a
shadow
of
things
to
come,
but
the
body
is
of
Christ.
\VS{18}Let
no
man seduce
you,
willing
in
humility,
and
religion
of
angels, walking
in
the
things
which
he hath
not
seen,
in
vain puffed up
by
the sense
of
his
flesh,
\VS{19}And
not
holding
the
head,
from
which
the
whole
body,
by
joints
and bands, being
supplied
with nourishment
and compacted, groweth unto
the
increase
of
God.
\VS{20}If
then
you
be
dead
with
Christ
from
the
elements
of
this
world,
why
do
you yet decree
as
though
living
in
the
world?
\VS{21}Touch
not,
taste
not,
handle
not:
\VS{22}Which
all
are unto
destruction
by
the
very
use,
according
to
the
precepts
and
doctrines
of
men.
\VS{23}Which
things
have
indeed
a shew
of
wisdom
in superstition
and
humility,
and
not sparing
the
body;
not
in
any honour
to
the filling
of
the
flesh.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore,
if
you
be risen
with
Christ,
seek
the
things
that
are
above;
where
Christ
is
sitting
at
the
right
hand
of
God:
\VS{2}Mind
the
things
that
are
above,
not
the
things
that
are
upon
the
earth.
\VS{3}For
you
are
dead;
and
your
life
is
hid
with
Christ
in
God.
\VS{4}When
Christ
shall
appear,
who
is
your
life,
then
you
also
shall
appear
with
him
in
glory.
\VS{5}Mortify
therefore
your
members
which
are
upon
the
earth;
fornication,
uncleanness,
lust,
evil concupiscence,
and
covetousness,
which
is
the service
of idols.
\VS{6}For
which
things
the
wrath
of
God cometh
upon
the children
of unbelief,
\VS{7}In
which
you
also
walked
some
time,
when
you
lived
in
them.
\VS{8}But
now
put
you
also
all away:
anger,
indignation,
malice,
blasphemy, filthy
speech
out
of
your
mouth.
\VS{9}Lie
not
one
to
another: stripping
yourselves
of
the
old
man
with
his
deeds,
\VS{10}And putting
on
the
new,
him
who
is
renewed unto
knowledge,
according
to
the
image
of
him
that
created
him.
\VS{11}Where
there
is
neither Gentile
nor
Jew,
circumcision
nor
uncircumcision,
Barbarian
nor
Scythian, bond
nor
free.
But
Christ
is
all,
and
in
all.
\VS{12}Put ye
on
therefore,
as
the
elect
of
God,
holy,
and
beloved,
the bowels
of
mercy, benignity,
humility, modesty,
patience:
\VS{13}Bearing
with
one
another,
and
forgiving
one
another,
if
any
have
a
complaint
against
another:
even
as
the
Lord hath
forgiven
you,
so
do
you
also.
\VS{14}But
above
all
these
things
have charity,
which
is
the
bond
of perfection:
\VS{15}And
let
the
peace
of
Christ rejoice
in
your
hearts, wherein
also
you
are
called
in
one
body:
and
be ye
thankful.
\VS{16}Let
the
word
of
Christ
dwell
in
you
abundantly,
in
all
wisdom:
teaching
and
admonishing
one
another
in
psalms,
hymns,
and
spiritual canticles,
singing
in
grace
in
your
hearts
to
God.
\VS{17}All whatsoever
you
do
in
word
or
in
work,
do
all
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
giving
thanks
to
God
and
the
Father
by
him.
\VS{18}Wives,
be
subject
to
your
husbands,
as it behoveth
in
the
Lord.
\VS{19}Husbands,
love
your
wives,
and
be
not
bitter towards
them.
\VS{20}Children,
obey
your
parents
in
all
things:
for
this
is
well
pleasing
to
the
Lord.
\VS{21}Fathers,
provoke
not
your
children
to indignation,
lest
they
be discouraged.
\VS{22}Servants,
obey
in
all
things
your
masters
according
to
the
flesh,
not serving
to
the eye,
as pleasing
men,
but
in
simplicity
of
heart,
fearing God.
\VS{23}Whatsoever
you
do,
do
it
from
the
heart,
as
to
the
Lord,
and
not
to
men:
\VS{24}Knowing
that
you
shall
receive
of
the
Lord
the
reward
of
inheritance.
Serve ye
the
Lord
Christ.
\VS{25}For
he
that doth
wrong,
shall
receive
for
that
which
he hath
done wrongfully:
and
there
is
no respect
of persons
with God.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Masters,
do
to
your
servants
that
which
is
just
and equal:
knowing
that
you
also
have
a
master
in
heaven.
\VS{2}Be instant
in
prayer;
watching
in
it
with
thanksgiving:
\VS{3}Praying withal
for
us
also,
that
God
may
open unto
us
a
door
of
speech
to
speak
the
mystery
of
Christ (for
which
also
I
am
bound;)
\VS{4}That
I
may
make
it
manifest
as
I
ought
to
speak.
\VS{5}Walk
with
wisdom towards
them
that
are without, redeeming
the
time.
\VS{6}Let
your
speech
be
always
in
grace
seasoned
with
salt:
that
you
may
know
how
you
ought
to
answer
every
man.
\VS{7}All
the
things
that concern
me,
Tychicus,
our dearest
brother,
and
faithful
minister
and
fellow
servant
in
the
Lord,
will
make
known
to
you,
\VS{8}Whom
I
have
sent
to
you
for
this
same
purpose,
that
he
may
know
the
things
that concern
you,
and
comfort
your
hearts,
\VS{9}With
Onesimus,
a most
beloved
and
faithful
brother,
who
is
one
of
you.
All
things
that
are done
here,
they
shall
make
known
to
you.
\VS{10}Aristarchus,
my
fellow
prisoner, saluteth
you,
and
Mark,
the
cousin german
of Barnabus, touching
whom
you
have
received
commandments;
if
he
come unto
you,
receive
him:
\VS{11}And
Jesus,
that
is
called
Justus:
who
are
of
the
circumcision:
these
only
are
my helpers
in
the
kingdom
of
God;
who
have
been
a comfort
to
me.
\VS{12}Epaphras saluteth
you,
who
is
one
of
you,
a
servant
of
Christ
Jesus,
who
is
always solicitous
for
you
in
prayers,
that
you
may
stand
perfect,
and
full
in
all
the
will
of
God.
\VS{13}For
I
bear
him
testimony
that
he hath
much labour
for
you,
and
for
them
that
are
at
Laodicea,
and
them
at
Hierapolis.
\VS{14}Luke,
the most
dear
physician, saluteth
you:
and
Demas.
\VS{15}Salute
the
brethren
who
are
at
Laodicea,
and Nymphas,
and
the
church
that
is
in
his
house.
\VS{16}And
when
this epistle
shall
have
been
read
with
you,
cause
that
it
be
read
also
in
the
church
of
the
Laodiceans:
and
that
you
read
that
which
is
of
the
Laodiceans.
\VS{17}And
say
to
Archippus:
Take
heed
to
the
ministry
which thou hast
received
in
the
Lord,
that thou
fulfill
it.
\VS{18}The
salutation
of
Paul
with
my
own
hand.
Be mindful
of
my bands.
Grace
be
with
you. Amen.
\par }