The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the COLOSSIANS
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005



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CHAPTER 1

1  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,
2  to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
3  We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,
4  having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that [is] to all the saints,
5  because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which you heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,
6  which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which you heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;
7  as you also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful ministrant of the Christ for you,
8  who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.
9  Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
10  to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
11  in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.
12  Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
13  who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,
14  in whom we have the redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of the sins,
15  who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
16  because in Him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through Him, and for Him, have been created,
17  and Himself is before all, and the all things in Him have consisted.
18  And Himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that He might become in all [things] -- Himself -- first,
19  because in Him it did please all the fullness to tabernacle,
20  and through Him to reconcile the all things to Himself -- having made peace through the blood of His cross -- through Him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.
21  And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did He reconcile,
22  in the body of His flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before Himself,
23  if also you remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which you heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
24  I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for His body, which is the assembly,
25  of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,
26  the secret that has been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was revealed to his saints,
27  to whom God did will to make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
28  whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
29  for which also I labor, striving according to His working that is working in power in me.


CHAPTER 2

1  For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
2  that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
3  in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,
4  and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,
5  for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;
6  as, then, you did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, you walk in Him,
7  being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught -- abounding in thanksgiving in it.
8  See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
9  because in Him does tabernacle all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
10  and you are made full in Him, who is the head of all principality and authority,
11  in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
12  being buried with Him in the baptism, in which also you rose with [Him] through the faith of the working of God, who did raise Him out of the dead.
13  And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
14  having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
15  having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a show of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.
16  Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
17  which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is] of the Christ;
18  let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he has not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
19  and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
20  If, then, you did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are you subject to ordinances?
21  -- you may not touch, nor taste, nor handle --
22  which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,
23  which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honor, unto a satisfying of the flesh.


CHAPTER 3

1  If, then, you were raised with the Christ, seek you the things above, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,
2  mind you the things above, not the things upon the earth,
3  for you did die, and your life has been hid with the Christ in God;
4  when the Christ -- our life -- may be revealed, then also we shall be revealed in glory with Him.
5  Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
6  because of which things comes the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
7  in which also you -- you did walk once, when you lived in them;
8  but now put off, even you, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.
9  Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
10  and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
11  where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.
12  Put on, for that reason, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,
13  forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one may have a quarrel with any one, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also you;
14  and above all these things, [have] love, which is a bond of the perfection,
15  and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and become thankful.
16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
17  and all, whatever you may do in word or in work, [do] all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through Him.
18  The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
19  the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
20  the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
21  the fathers! vex not your children, for fear that they be discouraged.
22  The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
23  and all, whatever you may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,
24  having known that you shall receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord -- for the Lord Christ you serve;
25  and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.


CHAPTER 4

1  The masters! you give that which is righteous and equal to the servants, having known that you also have a Master in the heavens.
2  You continue in the prayer , watching in it in thanksgiving;
3  praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,
4  that I may reveal it, as it is necessary for me to speak;
5  you walk in wisdom toward those without, the time forestalling;
6  your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.
7  All the things concerning me shall Tychicus make known to you -- the beloved brother, and faithful ministrant, and fellow-servant in the Lord --
8  whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that he might know the things concerning you, and might comfort your hearts,
9  with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; all things that [are] here shall they make known to you.
10  Salute you does Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom you did receive commands -- receive him if he may come unto you,)
11  and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only [are] fellow-workers for the reign of God who did become a comfort to me.
12  Salute you does Epaphras, who [is] of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that you may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
13  for I do testify to him, that he has much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.
14  Salute you does Lukas, the beloved physician, and Demas;
15  those in Laodicea salute you -- brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;
16  and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that it may be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also may read the [epistle] from Laodicea;
17  and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that you did receive in the Lord, that you may fulfil it.'
18  The salutation by the hand of me, Paul; remember my bonds; the grace [is] with you. Amen.



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