Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by [the] will of God, and Timothy the brother,

To those in Colossae, saints and faithful brothers in Christ: Grace to you and peace from God [the] Father of us.

We give thanks to the God Father of the Lord of us Jesus Christ, continually for you praying,

having heard of the faith of you in Christ Jesus and the love that you have toward all the saints,

because of the hope which is being laid up for you in the heavens, which you heard of before in the word of truth, the gospel,

which is being present unto you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you, from the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

just as you learned from Epaphras, the beloved fellow bond-servant of us, who is faithful on behalf of of you, a servant of Christ,

the [one] also having made known to us your love in [the] Spirit.

Because of this also we from the day we heard, not cease for you praying and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of Him in all wisdom and in understanding spiritual,

to walk worthily of the Lord: in all pleasing, in every work good, bringing forth fruit and growing knowledge of God,

with all power being strengthened according to the might glorious of Him unto all endurance and patience with joy,

giving thanks to the Father, the [One] having qualified you for the share of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

who has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred [us] into the kingdom of the Son the beloved of Him,

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

[He] is [the] image of the God invisible, [the] firstborn over all creation,

because in Him were created all things in the heavens and upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things through Him and unto Him have been created.

And He is before all things, and all things in Him have held together.

And He is the head of the body, the church, who is beginning, firstborn out from the dead, so that may be in all things He holding preeminence,

because in Him was pleased all the fullness to dwell,

and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace by the blood of the cross of Him, through Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in the heavens.

And you, once being alienated and hostile in mind in the deeds evil,

now however He has reconciled [You] in the body of the flesh of Him through death, to present you holy and unblemished and blameless before Him,

if indeed you continue in the faith, established and firm, and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which having been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which have become I Paul a minister.