Paul, an apostle, (not from men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

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

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it;

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

And they glorified God in me.

But of these, who seemed to be somewhat, (whatever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me:

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I may live to God.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness is attainable by the law, then Christ hath died in vain.

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no more by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means: for if there had been a law given which could give life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.

For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

However then, when ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no gods.

But now, after ye have known God, or rather are known by God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage?

And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

I would they were even cut off who trouble you.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Having predestinated us to the adoption of children to himself by 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 hath purposed in himself:

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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

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

And that he might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having by it slain the enmity:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

In whom ye also are built together, for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me on your account.

Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

To the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

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

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption.

And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.

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

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Knowing that whatever good thing any man doeth, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

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

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

And take 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 from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

Being confident of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

For God is my witness, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by 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, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given 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 do of his good pleasure.

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

For indeed he was sick nigh 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 God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, God will reveal even this to you.

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

Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing 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 minds through Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace will be with you.

But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

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

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

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

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.