Colossians 1:1-13 ▼

1 From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother.

2 To: The holy and faithful brothers in Colossae who are in union with the Messiah. May grace and peace from God our Father be yours!

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

4 because we have heard about your faith in the Messiah Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

5 based on the hope laid up for you in heaven. Some time ago you heard about this hope through the word of truth, the gospel

6 that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

7 You learned about this gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of the Messiah on your behalf.

8 He has told us about your love in the Spirit.

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

10 so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God.

11 You are being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, so that you might patiently endure everything with joy

12 and might thank the Father, who has enabled us to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.

13 God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves,