Colossians 1, side by side

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

²To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

²To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

³We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

⁴because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—

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

⁵the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

⁵For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

⁶that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

⁶Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

⁷You learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

⁷As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

⁸and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.

⁸Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

⁹For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

⁹For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁰so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

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

¹¹being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

¹¹Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

¹²giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

¹²Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

¹³He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

¹³Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

¹⁴In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

¹⁵The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

¹⁶For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

¹⁷He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

¹⁷And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

¹⁸And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

¹⁹For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

¹⁹For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

²⁰and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

²⁰And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

²¹Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

²¹And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

²²But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

²²In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

²³if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

²³If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

²⁴Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

²⁴Who 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:

²⁵I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,

²⁵Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

²⁶the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.

²⁶Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

²⁷To 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.

²⁷To 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:

²⁸We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.

²⁸Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

²⁹To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

²⁹Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.