Study Desk

Do not worry. Learn to pray about everything. Give thanks to God as you ask Him for what you need.

The peace of God is much greater than the human mind can understand. This peace will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Keep on doing all the things you learned and received and heard from me. Do the things you saw me do. Then the God Who gives peace will be with you.

I have everything I need and more than enough. I am taken care of because Epaphroditus brought your gift. It is a sweet gift. It is a gift that cost you something. It is the kind of gift God is so pleased with.

And my God will give you everything you need because of His great riches in Christ Jesus.

Now may our God and Father be honored forever. Let it be so.

This letter is from Paul, a missionary for Jesus Christ. God wanted me to work for Him. This letter is from brother Timothy also.

I am writing to you who belong to Christ in the city of Colossae. May all the Christian brothers there have loving-favor and peace from God our Father.

We always pray and give thanks to God for you. He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to God for you because we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus. We thank God for your love for all those who belong to Christ.

We thank God for the hope that is being kept for you in heaven. You first heard about this hope through the Good News which is the Word of Truth.

This is why I have never stopped praying for you since I heard about you. I ask God that you may know what He wants you to do. I ask God to fill you with the wisdom and understanding the Holy Spirit gives.

Then your lives will please the Lord. You will do every kind of good work, and you will know more about God.

God took us out of a life of darkness. He has put us in the holy nation of His much-loved Son.

Christ is as God is. God cannot be seen. Christ lived before anything was made.

God the Father was pleased to have everything made perfect by Christ, His Son.

Everything in heaven and on earth can come to God because of Christ's death on the cross. Christ's blood has made peace.

At one time you were strangers to God and your minds were at war with Him. Your thoughts and actions were wrong.

But Christ has brought you back to God by His death on the cross. In this way, Christ can bring you to God, holy and pure and without blame.

I became a preacher in His church for your good. In the plan of God I am to preach the Good News.