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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, SCode 1Cor 1:1 2Cor 1:1 1Th 3:2
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To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father. SCode Rom 1:7 Eph 1:1 Phil 1:1
Thanksgiving and Prayer
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We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, SCode Eph 1:15~16 Phm 1:4
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because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people - SCode 1Th 1:3
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the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel SCode Act 23:6 Eph 1:13 Col 1:23 2Tim 4:8 Tit 1:2 Heb 3:6 1Pet 1:4
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that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world - just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. SCode Psa 98:3 Mt 24:14 Jn 15:16 Act 11:23 Rom 16:26 Eph 4:21 Phil 1:11 Col 1:23
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You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, SCode Col 4:7 Col 4:12 Phm 1:23
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and who also told us of your love in the Spirit. SCode Rom 15:30
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For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, SCode 1Cor 12:8 Eph 1:17 Col 1:4 Col 4:5 2Th 1:11
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so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, SCode Psa 1:1 Psa 1:3 2Cor 5:9 Eph 4:1 Eph 5:10 Col 1:6 1Th 4:1
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being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, SCode Mt 5:12 Eph 4:2 Eph 3:16
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and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. SCode Act 26:18 Eph 5:20 Col 3:15
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For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, SCode Lk 22:53 Eph 1:6~8 Eph 6:12 1Th 1:10 2Pet 1:11
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in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. SCode
The Supremacy of the Son of God
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The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. SCode Psa 89:27 Rom 8:29 2Cor 4:4 1Tim 1:17
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For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. SCode Ezk 10:1 Rom 11:36 1Cor 8:6 Eph 1:10 Eph 1:21~23
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He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. SCode Jn 1:1 Jn 8:58 Heb 1:3
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And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. SCode Act 26:23 1Cor 15:20 Rev 1:5 Rev 3:14
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For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, SCode Jn 1:16 Col 2:9
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and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. SCode 2Cor 5:18 Eph 1:10 Eph 2:13~14
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Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. SCode Eph 2:1~2 Eph 2:12 Tit 1:16
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But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation - SCode Rom 7:4 1Cor 1:8 Eph 1:4 Eph 5:27 Jud 1:24
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if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. SCode Mk 16:15 Jn 15:4~5 Act 2:5 2Cor 3:6 Eph 3:17 Col 1:5~6 Col 2:7
Paul’s Labor for the Church
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Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. SCode 2Cor 7:4 2Cor 1:5 Eph 4:12 2Tim 1:8 2Tim 2:10
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I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness - SCode Eph 3:2 Col 1:23
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the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. SCode Rom 16:25~26 Eph 3:9
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To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. SCode Eph 3:16 Eph 1:18~19 Col 1:26 1Tim 1:1
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He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. SCode Mt 5:48 Col 1:22~23
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To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me. SCode 1Cor 15:10 Col 2:1~2 Col 4:12 1Tim 4:10
NIV Footnotes
  1. 1:2 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 4:15.
  2. 1:2 Some manuscripts Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
  3. 1:7 Or slave
  4. 1:7 Some manuscripts your
  5. 1:9 Or all spiritual wisdom and understanding
  6. 1:12 Some manuscripts us
  7. 1:21 Or minds, as shown by
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