Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ, who are at Colossae: Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have for all the saints,
5for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
6which has come unto you, as it has in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you since the day ye heard of it and knew the grace of God in truth.
7Ye also learned of it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ,
8who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, in all pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
13He hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son,
14in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.
16For by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him.
17And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
18And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence.
19For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell,
20and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself -- by Him, I say, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven.
21And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, even now hath He reconciled
22in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight,
23if ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am made a minister.
24I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for His body's sake, which is the church,
25of which I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God--
26even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints.
27To them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
29for which I also labor, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.
Colossians 2 - 21st Century King James Version
For I would that ye knew how great is my conflict for you and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
2that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may acknowledge the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ,
3in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words;
5for though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him,
7rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, following the tradition of men according to the rudiments of the world, and not in accordance with Christ.
9For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
10And ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power,
11and in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
12Ye are buried with Him in baptism, wherein ye also are risen with Him through the faith wrought by the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead.
13And you, being dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us. He took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross;
15and having despoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16Let no man therefore judge you in meat or drink, or in respect to a holy day or the new moon or the Sabbath days,
17which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
18Let no man beguile you of your reward by feigned humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19and not holding to the Head, from whom all the body, having nourishment ministered and knit together by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase from God.
20Therefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to its ordinances
21("Touch not, taste not, handle not,"
22which all are to perish with the using), according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
23These things have indeed a show of wisdom in willworship and humility and neglecting of the body, but are not in any honor against the satisfying of the flesh.
Colossians 3 - 21st Century King James Version
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.
5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
6Because of these, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience,
7in which ye also once walked, when ye lived in them.
8But now ye also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9Do not lie one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds,
10and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him,
11where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
12Therefore, holy and beloved, as the elect of God, put on hearts of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering,
13forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against another: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye are called in one body, and be ye thankful.
16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by Him.
18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them.
20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not unto men,
24knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.
25But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done, and there is no respect of persons.
Colossians 4 - 21st Century King James Version
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven.
2Continue in prayer and watch therein with thanksgiving,
3besides praying also for us that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
4that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outsiders, redeeming the time.
6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
7Tychicus, who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, shall declare unto you all my circumstances.
8I have sent him unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your state and comfort your hearts,
9and with him Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
10Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you, and also Mark, Barnabas' sister's son (concerning whom ye received instructions that if he come unto you, receive him),
11and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the Circumcision. These only are my fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, who have been a comfort unto me.
12Epaphras, a servant of Christ who is one of you, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
13For I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you and for those who are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.
14Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
15Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and the church which is in his house.
16And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
17And say to Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it."
18The salutation by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
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