to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;

And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.

if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.

buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.

and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.

If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:

knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

and greetings from Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.