Thematic Bible
Colossians 1:1 (show verse)
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 1:2 (show verse)
to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:3 (show verse)
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Colossians 1:4 (show verse)
since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have to all the saints,
Colossians 1:5 (show verse)
for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,
Colossians 1:6 (show verse)
which has come to you as it has also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth,
Colossians 1:7 (show verse)
even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
Colossians 1:8 (show verse)
he also having shown your love in the Spirit to us.
Colossians 1:9 (show verse)
For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Colossians 1:10 (show verse)
that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 1:11 (show verse)
being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,
Colossians 1:12 (show verse)
giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
Colossians 1:13 (show verse)
For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;
Colossians 1:14 (show verse)
in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.
Colossians 1:15 (show verse)
who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.
Colossians 1:16 (show verse)
For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.
Colossians 1:17 (show verse)
And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
Colossians 1:18 (show verse)
And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.
Colossians 1:19 (show verse)
For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell.
Colossians 1:20 (show verse)
And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.
Colossians 1:21 (show verse)
And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
Colossians 1:22 (show verse)
in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish, and without charge in His sight,
Colossians 1:23 (show verse)
if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,
Colossians 1:24 (show verse)
who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;
Colossians 1:25 (show verse)
of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God;
Colossians 1:26 (show verse)
the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
Colossians 1:27 (show verse)
For to them 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 preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:29 (show verse)
For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.