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

To the saints which are at Colossae, and brethren that believe in Christ. Grace be with you and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

since we heard of your faith which ye have in Christ Jesus: and of the love which ye bear to all saints

as ye learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, which is for you a faithful minister of Christ,

Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -

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

whom we preach warning all men, and teaching all men in all wisdom, to make all men perfect in Christ Jesus.

that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ:

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the spirit, joying and beholding the order that ye keep, and your steadfast faith in Christ.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk rooted and built in him,

Beware lest any man come and spoil you through philosophy and deceitful vanity, through the traditions of men, and ordinances after the world, and not after Christ.

In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcision made without hands, by putting off the sinful body of the flesh, through the circumcision that is in Christ,

which are nothing but shadows of things to come. But the body is in Christ.

Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say

If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand of God.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ, which is our life, shall show himself; then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Where is neither gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarous or Scythian, bond or free: But Christ is all in all things.

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel to another; even as Christ forgave you, even so do ye.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdom. Teach and exhort your own selves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs which have favour with them, singing in your hearts to the Lord.

forasmuch as ye know that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

praying also for us, that God open unto us the door of utterance, that we may speak the mystery of Christ - wherefore I am in bonds -

Epaphras the servant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and always laboureth fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect, and full in all that is the will of God.