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Greetings and Thanksgiving

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother,

to the saints in Colossae, our faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Receive grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanks be to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! We constantly pray for you,

for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints.

Indeed, you wait in hope for the inheritance reserved for you in heaven, of which you have heard through the word of truth.

This gospel,

already present among you, is bearing fruit and growing throughout the world just as it has among you since the day you accepted it and understood the gift of God in all its truth.

He who taught you, Epaphras, our dear fellow worker in Christ, faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

has reminded me of the love you have for me through the Spirit.

Because of this, since we heard about you, we have not stopped praying to God for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and spiritual understanding he gives.

May your lifestyle be worthy of the Lord and entirely pleasing to him. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.

May you become strong in everything through sharing in the glory of God, so that you may have great endurance and persevere with joy.

Consistently thank the Father who has empowered us to receive our portion in the inheritance of the saints in his kingdom of light.

He rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.

He is the image of the unseen God,

and for all creation, he is the firstborn.

For, in him, all things were created:

things in heaven and on earth,

visible and invisible:

Thrones, rulers, authorities, powers.

All was made through him and for him.

He is before all things,

and in him all things hold together.

And he is the head of the body, which is the Church,

for he is the first to rise from the dead,

so that he might be the first in everything.

For God was pleased to dwell fully in him.

Through him, God chose to reconcile all things to himself,

and through his blood shed on the cross,

God establishes peace on earth as well as in heaven.

You, yourselves, were once estranged from God and opposed to him because of your evil deeds,

but now, God has reconciled you through the body of his Son, by His death, so that you may be blameless, holy, and without fault before him.

Just stand firm on the foundation of your faith and remain steadfast in hope. Remember the gospel you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have become a minister.

Currently, I rejoice when I suffer for you; I fill up, in my own flesh, what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ for the sake of his body, which is the church.

For I serve the church because God entrusted me with the ministry to make the word of God fully known.

I am talking about the mysterious plan that has remained secret for centuries and generations, but which God has now revealed to his holy ones.

God chose to reveal to them the riches and even the glory that his mysterious plan kept for the pagan nations: Christ is in you, the hope of glory.

This is the Christ we preach. We warn and teach everyone true wisdom, aiming to make everyone perfect in Christ.

For this reason, I labor and struggle with the energy of Christ working powerfully in me.

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