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1 Scroll 41 Epistle to the Colossians.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2 to the Saints in Colossae and faithful brethren in Christ:
Grace be 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, praying always for you,

4 we having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the Saints,

5 for the hope which is laid up for you in the Heavens,
of which ye have heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel;

6 which is present to you, as it is in all the World;
and is bringing forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

7 as ye also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

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Therefore we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

10 that ye to walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 being strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and endurance with joyfulness;

12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us sufficient to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in the Light:

13 who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love:

14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the remission of the sins:

15 who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation:

16 for in Him were all things created, that are in the Heavens, and that are upon the Earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or authorities: all things were created by Him, and for Him.

17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things have consisted.

18 And He is the head of the body, the Church: who is the Beginning,
the First-born from the dead; that in all things He may have the pre-eminence.

19 For it did pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell;

20 and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself;
by Him, I say, whether they are things on the Earth, or things in the Heavens.

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And you, that being formerly alienated and enemies in the mind by the wicked works, yet now has He reconciled,

22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you Holy and blameless and faultless before Him:

23 if indeed ye continue in the faith founded and settled, and are not being moved away from the hope of the Gospel,
which ye have heard, and which has been preached to all the creation which is under Heaven; of which I Paul became a minister.

24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake, which is the Church:

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;

26 even the mystery which has been hid from Ages, and from generations, but now was manifested to His Saints:

27 to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

28 whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

29 For which I also labour, striving according to His works, which working in me mightily.

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1 For I would ye to know how great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2 that their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love,
and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

3 in whom are hid all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge;

4 and this I say, lest not any may deceive you with enticing words.

5 For though I am absent in the flesh, but I am with you in the spirit,
rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

6 As ye therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him:

7 have been rooted and being built up in Him, and being confirmed in the faith,
as ye were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest any make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men,
after the rudiments of the World, and not after Christ.

9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

10 And ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power:

11 in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,
in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

12 buried with Him in baptism, in which also ye are raised with Him through the faith,
of the working of God, who has raised Him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
has He made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

14 having blotted out the hand-writing of decrees that was against us, which was adverse to us,
and has taken it out of the middle, having nailed it to the cross;

15 and having despoiled principalities and authorities, He made a show of them openly, having triumphed over them in it.

16 Therefore let not someone judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of Festival or New Moon or Sabbaths:

17 which are a shadow of the coming things; but the body of Christ.

18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worship of Angels,
intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly being puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

19 and not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands being supplied,
and being knit together, increases with the increase of God.

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If therefore ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the World,
why, as though living in the World, are ye subject to decrees,

21 (Thou may not touch; Thou may not taste; Thou may not handle;

22 which all are to perish with the using);
according to the Commandments and doctrines of men? Isa 29:13

23 Which things are indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility,
and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

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1 If ye then were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting upon the right hand of God.

2 Set your minds on things above, not on things on the Earth.

3 For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

4 When Christ, who is our life, may appear, then will ye also appear with Him in glory.

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the Earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

6 for which things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience:

7 in which ye also walked formerly, when ye lived with them.

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

10 and have put on the new man, which being renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him:

11 where there is neither Greek[Gentile] nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free: but all things in all with Christ.

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Put on therefore, as the elects of God, Holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, endurance;

13 forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any may have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

14 And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

17 And anything whatever ye may do in word or deed, do all in name of Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God and Father by Him.

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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love the wives, and be not bitter against them.

20 Children, obey the parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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And anything whatever ye may do, do it from your soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

24 knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

25 But he who doing wrong, will receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons[favouritism].

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1 Lords, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Lord in Heavens.

2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

3 at the same time praying also for us, that God may open to us a door of utterance,
to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also have been bound:

4 that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

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Walk in wisdom towards them that are outsiders, redeeming the time.

6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, to know how ye ought to answer every one.

7 All my state shall Tychicus declare to you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:

8 whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know your affairs, and he may comfort your hearts;

9 with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which are done here.

10 Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, salutes you;
and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye received Commandments: if he should come to you, receive him).

11 And Jesus, who being called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellow-workers to the Kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you,
always striving for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

13 For I bear testimony to him, that he has a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

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Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, salutes you.

15 Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the Church which is in his house.

16 And when this epistle may be read among you, cause that it may be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans;
and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

17 And say to Archippus, take heed to the ministry which Thou have received in the Lord, that Thou may fulfil it.

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The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen!