Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy, the brother,

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.

We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

which is present among you, even as it is in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it does in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;

Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;

of which I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

that their hearts may he comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ,

having been buried with Him in your immersion, in which ye were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead;

and not holding fast the Head from Whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

for ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

on account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience;

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts, to God.

And whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

at the same time praying for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ (because of which I have also become bound),

and Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellow-workers in the interests of the Kingdom of God, who, indeed, became a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.