God

To: God’s people in Colosse, faithful brothers in the Messiah: Grace to you and shalom from God our Father.

Whenever we pray, we always give thanks for you to God, the Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

has made its presence felt among you, just as it is also being fruitful and multiplying throughout the world in the same way as it has among you since the day you heard and understood the grace of God as it really is.

so that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and entirely pleasing to him, being fruitful in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God.

giving thanks to the Father for having made you fit to share in the inheritance of his people in the light.

He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation,

For it pleased God to have his full being live in his Son

I became a servant of the Good News because God gave me this work to do for your benefit. The work is to make fully known the message from God,

To them God wanted to make known how great among the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. And the secret is this: the Messiah is united with you people! In that rests your hope of glory!

My purpose is that they may be encouraged, that they may be joined together in love, and that they may have all the riches derived from being assured of understanding and fully knowing God’s secret truth, which is — the Messiah!

you were buried along with him by being immersed; and in union with him, you were also raised up along with him by God’s faithfulness that worked when he raised Yeshua from the dead.

They fail to hold to the Head, from whom the whole Body, receiving supply and being held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God makes it grow.

So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

for it is because of these things that God’s anger is coming on those who disobey him.

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with feelings of compassion and with kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

and let the shalom which comes from the Messiah be your heart’s decision-maker, for this is why you were called to be part of a single Body. And be thankful —

That is, everything you do or say, do in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

Fathers, don’t irritate your children and make them resentful, or they will become discouraged.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything, not serving only when they are watching you, to win their favor, but single-heartedly, fearing the Lord.

Include prayer for us, too, that God may open a door for us to proclaim the message about the secret of the Messiah — for that is why I am in prison.

Yeshua, the one called Justus, also sends greetings. These three are among the Circumcised; and among my fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, only they have turned out to be a comfort to me.

Epaphras sends greetings; he is one of you, a slave of the Messiah Yeshua who always agonizes in his prayer on your behalf, praying that you may stand firm, mature and fully confident, as you devote yourselves completely to God’s will.

From: Sha’ul, Sila and Timothy To: The Messianic Community of the Thessalonians, united with God the Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah: Grace to you and shalom.

We always thank God for all of you, regularly mentioning you in our prayers,