Study Desk

Keep doing what you have learned and received from me, what you have heard and seen me doing; then the God who gives shalom will be with you.

I have been more than paid in full: I have been filled, since I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent — they are a fragrant aroma , an acceptable sacrifice, one that pleases God well.

Moreover, my God will fill every need of yours according to his glorious wealth, in union with the Messiah Yeshua.

And to God our Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

To: God's people in Colosse, faithful brothers in the Messiah: Grace to you and shalom from God our Father.

Whenever we pray, we always give thanks for you to God, the Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

has made its presence felt among you, just as it is also be ing fruitful and multiply ing throughout the world in the same way as it has among you since the day you heard and understood the grace of God as it really is.

Therefore, from the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all the wisdom and understanding which the Spirit gives;

so that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and entirely pleasing to him, be ing fruitful in every good work and multiply ing in the full knowledge of God.

He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation,

For it pleased God to have his full being live in his Son

In other words, you, who at one time were separated from God and had a hostile attitude towards him because of your wicked deeds,

I became a servant of the Good News because God gave me this work to do for your benefit. The work is to make fully known the message from God,

To them God wanted to make known how great among the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. And the secret is this: the Messiah is united with you people! In that rests your hope of glory!

For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is.

You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your "foreskin," your old nature. But God made you alive along with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sins.

They fail to hold to the Head, from whom the whole Body, receiving supply and being held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God makes it grow.

So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God .

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

let the Word of the Messiah, in all its richness, live in you, as you teach and counsel each other in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude to God in your hearts.