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Let everyone see how reasonable and gentle you are. The Lord is near!

Then God’s shalom, passing all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with the Messiah Yeshua.

In union with the Lord I greatly rejoice that now, after this long time, you have let your concern for me express itself again. Of course, you were concerned for me all along, but you had no opportunity to express it.

I can do all things through him who gives me power.

Moreover, my God will fill every need of yours according to his glorious wealth, in union with the Messiah Yeshua.

Greet each of God’s people in the Messiah Yeshua. The brothers with me send their greetings to you.

The grace of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah be with your spirit.

From: Sha’ul, by God’s will an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua, and brother Timothy

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.

For we have heard of your trust in the Messiah Yeshua and of the love you have for all God’s people.

You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow-slave and a faithful worker for the Messiah on your behalf;

Therefore, from the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all the wisdom and understanding which the Spirit gives;

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.

We pray that you will be continually strengthened with all the power that comes from his glorious might; so that you will be able to persevere and be patient in any situation, joyfully

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.

It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven.

because in connection with him were created all things — in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities — they have all been created through him and for him.

He existed before all things, and he holds everything together.

Also he is head of the Body, the Messianic Community — he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might hold first place in everything.

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

and through his Son to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace through him, through having his Son shed his blood by being executed on a stake.

In other words, you, who at one time were separated from God and had a hostile attitude towards him because of your wicked deeds,

he has now reconciled in the Son’s physical body through his death; in order to present you holy and without defect or reproach before himself —

I rejoice in my present sufferings on your behalf! Yes, I am completing in my own flesh what has been lacking of the Messiah’s afflictions, on behalf of his Body, the Messianic Community.