Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God,

and Timothy our brother, to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse: grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always in our prayers for you:

which is come unto you, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

that ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation:

Of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I might fully declare the word of God:

to whom God would make known the rich glory of this mystery, among the gentiles; which is this, that Christ is in you the hope of glory:

that their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all the riches of a full assurance of understanding in these things, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of our God and Father, and of Christ:

being buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are raised together with Him, through faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

which are a shadow of good things to come, but the body is of Christ.

and not adhering to the head, from which all the body, being supplied and held together as by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

For ye are dead as to the world, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

for which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, benignity, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

And let the peace of God preside in your hearts, to which ye are also called as united in one body: and be thankful for it.

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

Servants, be obedient in all things to your lawful masters, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in uprightness of heart, fearing God; and whatever service ye do,

but he that doth unjustly, shall receive for what wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons with God:

Praying at the same time for us also, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am in bonds: that I may make it manifest, as I ought.

these are the only persons, who, of the circumcision, have been my fellow-laborers in the kingdom of God, and who were a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you; who always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God: