Thematic Bible
Colossians 1:1 (show verse)
Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus, by God's will, and Timotheus the brother,
Colossians 1:2 (show verse)
to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which are in Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:3 (show verse)
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continually when praying for you,
Colossians 1:4 (show verse)
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,
Colossians 1:5 (show verse)
on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,
Colossians 1:6 (show verse)
which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:
Colossians 1:7 (show verse)
even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
Colossians 1:8 (show verse)
who has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 1:9 (show verse)
For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Colossians 1:10 (show verse)
so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;
Colossians 1:11 (show verse)
strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;
Colossians 1:12 (show verse)
giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,
Colossians 1:13 (show verse)
who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
Colossians 1:14 (show verse)
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
Colossians 1:15 (show verse)
who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
Colossians 1:16 (show verse)
because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
Colossians 1:17 (show verse)
And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
Colossians 1:18 (show verse)
And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:
Colossians 1:19 (show verse)
for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,
Colossians 1:20 (show verse)
and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
Colossians 1:21 (show verse)
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
Colossians 1:22 (show verse)
in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
Colossians 1:23 (show verse)
if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.
Colossians 1:24 (show verse)
Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;
Colossians 1:25 (show verse)
of which I became minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given me towards you to complete the word of God,
Colossians 1:26 (show verse)
the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;
Colossians 1:27 (show verse)
to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:
Colossians 1:28 (show verse)
whom we announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.
Colossians 1:29 (show verse)
Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.