Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly regions in Christ;

having in love predestinated us for himself to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him;

but God, who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us, gave to us,

For by grace ye have been saved, through faith; and this is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

that ye were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

and might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain on it the enmity.

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellowcitizens with the saints, and members of the household of God,

in whom ye also are built together into a dwellingplace of God in the Spirit.

if, indeed, ye heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given me toward you,

of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, given to me according to the effectual working of his power.

to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which hath been hidden for ages in God, who created all things;

to the intent that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions might be known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a fullgrown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

and that ye put on the new man, who was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Let him that stealeth steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands at that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

Let no foul language proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for edification, as the need may be, that it may benefit the hearers;

and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.

For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks always for all things to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

doing service with good will, as to the Lord, and not to men;

knowing that whatever good each one shall have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bondman or free.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil;

Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

and receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began in you a good work, will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus;

For God is my witness how much I long for you all in the tender affection of Christ Jesus.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will.

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries; which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation; and that from God;

who, being in the form of God, did not regard it as a thing to be grasped at to be on an equality with God,

Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name;

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

For indeed he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

I press toward the mark for the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind; and if ye have a different mind in anything, even this will God reveal to you.

whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, whose mind is on earthly things.

Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God;

and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

The things which ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace will be with you.

But I have all, and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus what was sent from you, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

But my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

Now to God, our Father, be glory for ever. Amen.

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

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colossae: Grace be 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 come to you, as it is in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, as it doth also in you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth;

that ye may walk worthily of the Lord so as to please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of the whole creation;

for God was pleased that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself,

of which I became a minister, according to the stewardship which God entrusted to me, for you, to fulfill the word of God,

to whom it was the will of God 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 be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and that they may attain to all the riches of a full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

having been buried with him in your baptism; in which also ye were raised to life with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead;

and not holding fast the Head, from which the whole body, supported and compacted by means of the joints and ligaments, groweth with an increase wrought by God.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

For ye died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God;

on account of which things cometh the wrath of God.

Clothe yourselves, therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, with compassionate affections, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

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

and whatever ye do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the Father, through him.

praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for the sake of which I am also in bonds;

and Jesus, who is called Justus; who are of the circumcision; these only are my fellowworkers for the kingdom of God, who have been an encouragement unto me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be to you, and peace.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and perseverance in the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father;

since we know, brethren beloved of God, that he hath chosen you;

For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [about you].

For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

but after we had suffered before and had been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily, and righteously, and unblamably we conducted ourselves toward you that believe;

that ye should walk in a manner worthy of God, who is calling you to his own kingdom and glory.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also is powerfully working in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,

and sent Timothy, our brother and a fellowlaborer with God in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to encourage you in your faith,