1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

2 to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you,

4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified,

5 because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good-news

6 being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

7 Just as also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondman, who is a faithful helper of the Christ for you,

8 the man who also made clear to us your love in Spirit.

9 Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

10 For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

11 being strengthened in every ability, according to the dominion of his glory, for all perseverance and longsuffering with joy.

12 Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light.

13 Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

14 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,

15 who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

16 Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created

17 And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

18 And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

19 Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness dwell,

20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him whether things upon the earth or things in the heavens.

21 And you, being formerly alienated and hostile in mind, in works, in things evil. But now he has reconciled

22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him.

23 If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

24 I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

25 Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God,

26 the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been made known to his sanctified.

27 To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

28 Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

29 For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the wyll of God and brother Timotheus.

2 To the sayntes which are at Colossa and brethren that beleve in Christ.Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.

3 We geve thankes to God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ alwayes prayenge for you

4 sence we hearde of youre faith which ye have in Christ Iesu and of the love which ye beare to all sayntes

5 for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven of which hope ye have herde before by ye true worde of the gospell

6 which is come vnto you eve as it is in to all ye worlde and is frutefull as it is amoge you fro the fyrst daye in ye which ye herde of it and had experiece in ye grace of God in the trueth

7 as ye learned of Epaphra oure deare felowe servaunt which is for you a faythfull minister of Christ

8 which also declared vnto vs youre love which ye have in the sprete.

9 For this cause we also sence the daye we herde of it have not ceasyd prayinge for you and desyringe that ye myght be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdome and spretuall vnderstodynge

10 that ye myght walke worthy of the lorde in all thynges that please beynge frutfull in all good workes and encreasynge in ye knowledge of God

11 strengthed with all myght thorowe hys glorious power vnto all pacience and longe sufferynge with ioyfulnes

12 gevynge thankes vnto the father which hath made vs mete to be part takers of the enheritaunce of sainctes in light.

13 Which hath delivered vs from the power of dercknes and hath translated vs in to the kyngdome of his dere sone

14 in whom we have redempcion thurow his bloud that is to saye the forgevenes of sinnes

15 which is the ymage of the invisible god fyrst begotten of all creatures.

16 For by him were all thynges created thynges that are in heven and thynges that are in erth: thynges visible and thynges invisible: whether they be maieste or lordshippe ether rule or power. All thinges are creatyd by hym and in him

17 and he is before all thinges and in him all thynges have their beynge.

18 And he is the heed of the body that is to wit of the congregacion: he is the begynnynge and fyrst begotten of the deed that in all thynges he might have the preeminence.

19 For it pleased the father that in him shuld all fulnes dwell

20 and by him to reconcile all thynge vnto him silfe and to set at peace by him thorow the bloud of his crosse both thynges in heven and thynges in erth.

21 And you (which were in tymes past straungers and enymes because youre myndes were set in evyll workes) hath he now recocilied

22 in ye body of his flesshe thorowe deeth to make you holy vnblameable and with out faut in his awne syght

23 yf ye continue grounded and stablysshed in the fayth and be not moved awaye from the hope of the gospell wher of ye have herde howe that it is preached amonge all creatures which are vnder heven wher of I Paul am made a minister.

24 Now ioye I in my soferinges which I suffre for you and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesshe for his bodies sake which is the congregacion

25 wher of I am made a minister acordynge to the ordinaunce of god which ordinaunce was geven me vnto you warde to fulfill ye worde of god

26 that mistery hid sence the worlde beganne and sence ye begynnynge of generacions: but now is opened to his saynctes

27 to whom god wolde make knowen the glorious riches of this mistery amonge the gentyls which riches is Christ in you the hope of glory

28 whom we preach warnynge all men and teachinge all men in all wisdome to make all men parfect in Christ Iesu.

29 Wherin I also laboure and stryve even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely.