1 P aul, apostle of Christ Jesus, by God's will, and Timotheus the brother,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,

2 t o the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which in Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

3 W e give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continually praying for you,

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,

4 h aving heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that to all the saints,

5 o n account of the hope which laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

6 w hich are come to you, as in all the world, are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;

7 e ven as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

8 w ho has also manifested to us your love in Spirit.

who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

9 F or this reason we also, from the day we heard, 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,

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

10 t o walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

11 s trengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;

in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

12 g iving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,

Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

13 w ho has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate into the reign of the Son of His love,

14 i n whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

15 w ho is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

16 b ecause 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.

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

17 A nd he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

18 A nd he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all -- himself -- first,

19 f or in him all the fulness was pleased to dwell,

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

20 a nd 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.

and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

21 A nd you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

22 i n the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,

in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

23 i f 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 under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

24 N ow, 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;

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

25 o f which I became minister, according to the dispensation of God which given me towards you to complete the word of God,

of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

26 t he mystery which hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

27 t o 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:

to whom God did will to make known what the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

28 w hom we announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

29 W hereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.