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let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord is near;

and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus; there salute you the brethren with me;

the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you all. Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,

to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that is to all the saints,

as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

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

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things --himself--first,

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

and through him to reconcile the all things to himself--having made peace through the blood of his cross--through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

And you--once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,