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I have [fn] received all, and I abound, and am full: and I accepted all that ye sent to me by Epaphroditus, a sweet odor, and an acceptable sacrifice that pleaseth God.

And may God supply all your necessity, according to his riches, in the glory of Jesus the Messiah.

And to God our Father, be glory and honor, for ever and ever. Amen.

PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, and Timothy a brother,

to them who are at Colosse, the brethren, holy and believing in Jesus the Messiah: peace be with you, and grace from God our Father.

We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, at all times, and pray for you;

which is announced to you, as also to all the world; and which groweth and yieldeth fruits, as it doth also among you from the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in reality:

Therefore we also, from the day we heard [fn] , have not ceased to pray for you; and to ask that ye may be filled with a knowledge of the good pleasure of God, in all wisdom, and in all spiritual understanding;

that ye may walk as is right, and may please God with all good works, and may yield fruits, and grow in the knowledge of God;

and may, with joy, give thanks to God the Father, who hath fitted us for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light;

who is the likeness of the invisible God, and the first-born of all creatures:

of which I am a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me among you, that I should fulfill the word of God,

to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which [fn] is the Messiah; who in you is the hope of our glory;

that their hearts may be comforted, and that they, by love, may come to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father, and of the Messiah,

And ye have been buried with him, by baptism; and by it ye have risen with him; while ye believed in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

and holdeth not the head, from which the whole body is framed and constructed, with joints and members, and groweth with the growth [fn] of God.

And they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a show of humility, and of the fear of God, and of not sparing the body; not in any thing of excellence, but in things subservient to the body.

If then ye have risen with the Messiah, seek the things on high, where the Messiah sitteth on the right hand of God.

for ye are dead; and your life is hidden with the Messiah, in God.

For on account of these [fn] , the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.