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

As ye also learned from Epaphras our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

Who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he may have the pre-eminence.

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Buried with him in baptism, in which also ye are raised with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then will ye also appear with him in glory.

All my state shall Tychicus declare to you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:

Whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that he may know your state, and comfort your hearts;

With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which are done here.

Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, saluteth you; and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (concerning whom ye received commandments: if he should come to you, receive him;)

And Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellow-workers to the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.