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Colossians 1

New Century Version NCV

1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. I am an apostle because that is what God wanted. Also from Timothy, our brother.

2 To the holy and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ that live in Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

3 In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

4 because we have heard about the faith you have in Christ Jesus and the love you have for all of God's people.

5 You have this faith and love because of your hope, and what you hope for is kept safe for you in heaven. You learned about this hope when you heard the message about the truth, the Good News

6 that was told to you. Everywhere in the world that Good News is bringing blessings and is growing. This has happened with you, too, since you heard the Good News and understood the truth about the grace of God.

7 You learned about God's grace from Epaphras, whom we love. He works together with us and is a faithful servant of Christ for us.

8 He also told us about the love you have from the Holy Spirit.

9 Because of this, since the day we heard about you, we have continued praying for you, asking God that you will know fully what he wants. We pray that you will also have great wisdom and understanding in spiritual things

10 so that you will live the kind of life that honors and pleases the Lord in every way. You will produce fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.

11 God will strengthen you with his own great power so that you will not give up when troubles come, but you will be patient.

12 And you will joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you able to have a share in all that he has prepared for his people in the kingdom of light.

13 God has freed us from the power of darkness, and he brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

14 The Son paid for our sins, and in him we have forgiveness.

15 No one can see God, but Jesus Christ is exactly like him. He ranks higher than everything that has been made.

16 Through his power all things were made -- things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.

17 He was there before anything was made, and all things continue because of him.

18 He is the head of the body, which is the church. Everything comes from him. He is the first one who was raised from the dead. So in all things Jesus has first place.

19 God was pleased for all of himself to live in Christ.

20 And through Christ, God has brought all things back to himself again -- things on earth and things in heaven. God made peace through the blood of Christ's death on the cross.

21 At one time you were separated from God. You were his enemies in your minds, and the evil things you did were against God.

22 But now God has made you his friends again. He did this through Christ's death in the body so that he might bring you into God's presence as people who are holy, with no wrong, and with nothing of which God can judge you guilty.

23 This will happen if you continue strong and sure in your faith. You must not be moved away from the hope brought to you by the Good News that you heard. That same Good News has been told to everyone in the world, and I, Paul, help in preaching that Good News.

24 I am happy in my sufferings for you. There are things that Christ must still suffer through his body, the church. I am accepting, in my body, my part of these things that must be suffered.

25 I became a servant of the church because God gave me a special work to do that helps you, and that work is to tell fully the message of God.

26 This message is the secret that was hidden from everyone since the beginning of time, but now it is made known to God's holy people.

27 God decided to let his people know this rich and glorious secret which he has for all people. This secret is Christ himself, who is in you. He is our only hope for glory.

28 So we continue to preach Christ to each person, using all wisdom to warn and to teach everyone, in order to bring each one into God's presence as a mature person in Christ.

29 To do this, I work and struggle, using Christ's great strength that works so powerfully in me.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 Paulus apostolus Christi Iesu per voluntatem Dei et Timotheus frater

2 his qui sunt Colossis sanctis et fidelibus fratribus in Christo Iesu gratia vobis et pax a Deo Patre nostro

3 gratias agimus Deo et Patri Domini nostri Iesu Christi semper pro vobis orantes

4 audientes fidem vestram in Christo Iesu et dilectionem quam habetis in sanctos omnes

5 propter spem quae reposita est vobis in caelis quam audistis in verbo veritatis evangelii

6 quod pervenit ad vos sicut et in universo mundo est et fructificat et crescit sicut in vobis ex ea die qua audistis et cognovistis gratiam Dei in veritate

7 sicut didicistis ab Epaphra carissimo conservo nostro qui est fidelis pro vobis minister Christi Iesu

8 qui etiam manifestavit nobis dilectionem vestram in Spiritu

9 ideo et nos ex qua die audivimus non cessamus pro vobis orantes et postulantes ut impleamini agnitione voluntatis eius in omni sapientia et intellectu spiritali

10 ut ambuletis digne Deo per omnia placentes in omni opere bono fructificantes et crescentes in scientia Dei

11 in omni virtute confortati secundum potentiam claritatis eius in omni patientia et longanimitate cum gaudio

12 gratias agentes Patri qui dignos nos fecit in partem sortis sanctorum in lumine

13 qui eripuit nos de potestate tenebrarum et transtulit in regnum Filii dilectionis suae

14 in quo habemus redemptionem remissionem peccatorum

15 qui est imago Dei invisibilis primogenitus omnis creaturae

16 quia in ipso condita sunt universa in caelis et in terra visibilia et invisibilia sive throni sive dominationes sive principatus sive potestates omnia per ipsum et in ipso creata sunt

17 et ipse est ante omnes et omnia in ipso constant

18 et ipse est caput corporis ecclesiae qui est principium primogenitus ex mortuis ut sit in omnibus ipse primatum tenens

19 quia in ipso conplacuit omnem plenitudinem habitare

20 et per eum reconciliare omnia in ipsum pacificans per sanguinem crucis eius sive quae in terris sive quae in caelis sunt

21 et vos cum essetis aliquando alienati et inimici sensu in operibus malis

22 nunc autem reconciliavit in corpore carnis eius per mortem exhibere vos sanctos et inmaculatos et inreprehensibiles coram ipso

23 si tamen permanetis in fide fundati et stabiles et inmobiles ab spe evangelii quod audistis quod praedicatum est in universa creatura quae sub caelo est cuius factus sum ego Paulus minister

24 qui nunc gaudeo in passionibus pro vobis et adimpleo ea quae desunt passionum Christi in carne mea pro corpore eius quod est ecclesia

25 cuius factus sum ego minister secundum dispensationem Dei quae data est mihi in vos ut impleam verbum Dei

26 mysterium quod absconditum fuit a saeculis et generationibus nunc autem manifestatum est sanctis eius

27 quibus voluit Deus notas facere divitias gloriae sacramenti huius in gentibus quod est Christus in vobis spes gloriae

28 quem nos adnuntiamus corripientes omnem hominem et docentes omnem hominem in omni sapientia ut exhibeamus omnem hominem perfectum in Christo Iesu

29 in quo et laboro certando secundum operationem eius quam operatur in me in virtute