The New Testament
Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript
1918 by Henry Anderson

Colossians Chapter 1

Col 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,
Col 1:2 to the saints that are in Colossae and the faithful brethren in Christ. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 1:3 We thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Col 1:4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love you have for all the saints,
Col 1:5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
Col 1:6 which is present among you, as also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit and increasing as also among you, from the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth:
Col 1:7 as you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who' is faithful in behalf of you, a minister of Christ,
Col 1:8 who also made known to us your love in the Spirit.
Col 1:9 Wherefore we also, from the day we heard, cease not to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Col 1:10 so that you walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to all pleasing, in every good work bringing forth fruit and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Col 1:11 in all power made powerful according to the might of his glory for all patience and longsuffering, with joy,
Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who made us fit for the portion of the inheritance of the saints in light,
Col 1:13 who delivered us from the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,
Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins,
Col 1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature,
Col 1:16 for in him were all things created that are in the heavens and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships, or principalities or authorities: all things have been created through him and for him,
Col 1:17 and he is before all things, and all things in him consist;
Col 1:18 and he is the head of the body, and the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he himself might become in all things pre-eminent;
Col 1:19 for he was well pleased that all the fulness should dwell in him
Col 1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens;
Col 1:21 and you being formerly alienated and enemies in mind in the wicked works, now, however, he has reconciled
Col 1:22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without fault and blameless in his presence;
Col 1:23 if indeed you continue in faith founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature that is under heaven, of which I Paul became a minister.
Col 1:24 Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and, in your stead, I fill up that which remains of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church,
Col 1:25 of which I became a minister according to the dispensation of God, which was given to me for you to fulfil the word of God,
Col 1:26 the mystery that having been hid from the ages and from the generations, now, however, has been made manifest to his saints,
Col 1:27 to whom God wished to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
Col 1:28 whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
Col 1:29 for which I also labor, striving according to his energy that is active in me in power.