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Colossians : Murdock
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01 PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, and
Timothy a brother,
02 to them who are at Colosse, the brethren, holy and believing in
Jesus the Messiah: peace be with you, and grace from God our Father.
03 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
at all times, and pray for you;
04 lo, ever since we heard of your faith in Jesus the Messiah, and
of your love to all the saints;
05 because of the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, of which
ye heard before in the word of truth of the gospel;
06 which is announced to you, as also to all the world; and which
groweth and yieldeth fruits, as it doth also among you from the day ye heard
and knew the grace of God in reality:
07 as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is
for you a faithful minister of the Messiah;
08 and who hath made known to us your love in the Spirit.
09 Therefore we also, from the day we heard [of it], have not
ceased to pray for you; and to ask that ye may be filled with a knowledge of
the good pleasure of God, in all wisdom, and in all spiritual
understanding;
10 that ye may walk as is right, and may please God with all good
works, and may yield fruits, and grow in the knowledge of God;
11 and may be strengthened with all strength, according to the
greatness of his glory, in all patience and long suffering;
12 and may, with joy, give thanks to God the Father, who hath
fitted us for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light;
13 and hath rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and
transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son;
14 by whom we have redemption and remission of sins:
15 who is the likeness of the invisible God, and the first-born of
all creatures:
16 and by him was created every thing that is in heaven and on
earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen, whether thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or sovereignties; every thing was through him,
and was created by him:
17 and he was prior to all, and by him every thing exists.
18 And he is the head of the body the church; as he is the head and
first-born from among the dead, that he might be the first in all things.
19 For it pleased [the Father], that in him all fullness should
dwell;
20 and by him, to reconcile all things to himself; and through him,
he hath pacified, with the blood of his cross, both [those] on earth and
those in heaven.
21 And also to you, who were before alienated and enemies in your
minds, because of your evil deeds,
22 to you, he hath now given peace, by the body of his flesh, and
by his death; that he might establish you in his presence, holy, without
blemish, and without offence;
23 provided ye continue in your faith, your foundation being firm,
and ye be not removed from the hope of the gospel; of which ye have heard,
that it is proclaimed in all the creation beneath heaven; of which [gospel]
I Paul am a minister.
24 And I rejoice in the sufferings which are for your sakes; and,
in my flesh, I fill up the deficiency in the afflictions of the Messiah, in
behalf of his body, which is the church;
25 of which I am a minister, according to the dispensation of God
which is given to me among you, that I should fulfill the word of God,
26 [namely,] that mystery, which was hidden for ages and
generations, but is now revealed to his saints;
27 to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of
this mystery among the Gentiles; which [mystery] is the Messiah; who in you
is the hope of our glory;
28 whom we proclaim, and teach and make known to every man, in all
wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Jesus the Messiah.
29 And for this also, I toil and strive, with the aid of the
strength that is imparted to me.
01 And I wish you to know, what a struggle I have for you, and for
them of Laodicea, and for the others who have not seen my face in the flesh;
02 that their hearts may be comforted, and that they, by love, may
come to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the
knowledge of the mystery of God the Father, and of the Messiah,
03 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.
04 And this I say, lest any one should mislead you by the
persuasiveness of words.
05 For though I am separated from you in the flesh, yet I am with
you in spirit; and I rejoice at beholding your good order, and the stability
of your faith in the Messiah.
06 As therefore ye have received Jesus the Messiah our Lord, walk
ye in him,
07 strengthening your roots and building up yourselves in him, and
establishing yourselves in the faith which ye have learned, in which may ye
abound in thanksgiving.
08 Beware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain
deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of
the world, and not according to the Messiah,
09 in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity corporeally.
10 And in him ye are also complete, because he is the head of all
principalities and authorities.
11 And in him ye have been circumcised with a circumcision without
hands, by casting off the flesh of sins, by a circumcision of the Messiah.
12 And ye have been buried with him, by baptism; and by it ye have
risen with him; while ye believed in the power of God, who raised him from
the dead.
13 And you, who were dead in your sins, and by the uncircumcision
of your flesh, he hath vivified with him; and he hath forgiven us all our
sins:
14 and, by his mandates, he blotted out the handwriting of our
debts, which [handwriting] existed against us, and took [it] from the midst,
and affixed [it] to his cross.
15 And, by yielding up his body, he showed contempt for
principalities and authorities; and put them to shame, openly, in his own
person.
16 Let no one therefore disquiet you about food and drink, or about
the distinctions of festivals, and new moons, and sabbaths;
17 which were shadows of the things then future; but the body is
the Messiah.
18 And let no one wish, by abasing the mind, to bring you under
bonds, that ye subject yourselves to the worship of angels; while he is
prying into that which he hath not seen, and is vainly inflated in his
fleshly mind,
19 and holdeth not the head, from which the whole body is framed
and constructed, with joints and members, and groweth with the growth
[given] of God.
20 For if ye are dead with the Messiah from the rudiments of the
world, why are ye judged as if ye were living in the world?
21 But, touch thou not, and taste thou not, and handle thou not:
22 for these things perish in the using; and they are the
commandments and doctrines of men.
23 And they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a show of humility,
and of the fear of God, and of not sparing the body; not in any thing of
excellence, but in things subservient to the body.
01 If then ye have risen with the Messiah, seek the things on high,
where the Messiah sitteth on the right hand of God.
02 Think of things on high; not of the things on earth:
03 for ye are dead; and your life is hidden with the Messiah, in
God.
04 And when the Messiah, who is our life, shall be manifested, then
shall ye also be manifested with him in glory.
05 Mortify therefore your members that are on the earth; whoredom,
impurity, and the passions, and evil concupiscence, and avarice which is
idolatry.
06 For on account of these [things], the wrath of God cometh on the
children of disobedience.
07 And in these [things] ye also formerly walked, when ye lived in
them.
08 But now, put away from you all these, wrath, anger, malice,
reviling, filthy talking:
09 and lie not one to another; but put off the old man, with all
his practices;
10 and put ye on the new [man], that is renewed in knowledge, after
the likeness of his Creator;
11 where there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision, neither Greek nor barbarian, neither bond nor free; but the
Messiah is all, and in all.
12 Therefore, holy and beloved, as the elect of God, put ye on
compassions, and tenderness, and suavity, and humbleness of mind, and
gentleness, and long suffering.
13 And be ye indulgent towards one another, and forgiving to one
another: and if any one has a complaint against his neighbor, as the Messiah
forgave you, so also do ye forgive.
14 And with all these, [join] love, which is the girdle of
perfection.
15 And let the peace of the Messiah direct your hearts; for to that
ye have been called, in one body; and be ye thankful to the Messiah.
16 And let his word dwell in you richly, in all wisdom. And teach
and admonish yourselves, by psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and with
grace in your hearts sing ye unto God.
17 And whatever ye do in word or act, do it in the name of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, and give thanksgiving through him to God the Father.
18 Wives, be ye subject to your husbands, as is right in the
Messiah.
19 Husbands, love ye your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
20 Children, obey your parents in every thing; for this is pleasing
before our Lord.
21 Parents, anger not your children, lest they be discouraged.
22 Servants, obey in all things your bodily masters; not in the
sight of the eye only, as those who please men, but with a simple heart, and
in the fear of the Lord.
23 And whatever ye do, do it with your whole soul, as unto our
Lord, and not as to men:
24 and know ye, that from our Lord ye will receive a recompense as
the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord the Messiah.
25 But the delinquent will receive a recompense, according to the
delinquency; and there is no respect of persons.
01 Masters, do equity and justice to your servants; and be
conscious that ye also have a master in heaven.
02 Persevere in prayer; and be watchful in it, and in giving
thanks.
03 And pray also for us, that God would open to us a door of
speech, for uttering the mystery of the Messiah, for the sake of which I am
in bonds;
04 that I may unfold it, and utter it, as it behooveth me.
05 Walk in wisdom towards them without: and redeem your
opportunity.
06 And let your speech at all times be with grace; as it were,
seasoned with salt: and know ye, how ye ought to give answer to every man.
07 And what is [occurrent] with me, will Tychicus make known to
you; who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister, and our
fellow-servant in the Lord:
08 whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he might know
your affairs, and might comfort your hearts;
09 together with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is
from among you. These will make known to you what is [occurrent] with us.
10 Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, saluteth you; also Marcus, an
uncle's son to Barnabas, of whom ye have received directions, that if he
come to you, ye may kindly receive him:
11 also Jesus, who is called Justus. These are of the circumcision,
and they only have aided me in the kingdom of God; and they have been a
comfort to me.
12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is from among you, a servant of the
Messiah, always laboring for you in prayer, that ye may stand perfect and
complete in all the good pleasure of God.
13 For I testify for him, that he hath great zeal for you, and for
them of Laodicea, and for them of Hierapolis.
14 Luke the physician, our beloved, saluteth you; also Demas.
15 Salute ye the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church
in his house.
16 And when this epistle shall have been read among you, cause it
to be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that which is written
from Laodicea, do ye read.
17 And say to Archippus: Be attentive to the ministry which thou
hast received in our Lord, that thou fulfill it.
18 This salutation is by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds.
Grace be with you. Amen.
End of the Epistle to the Colossians; which was written from Rome, and was
sent by the hands of Tychicus.
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