Colossians 1 (NET)

Colossians 1:1¹From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 1:11 Cor 1:1Phlm 1:11 Thess 1:1Phil 1:1Rom 1:11 Thess 3:22 Thess 1:1Eph 1:1

Colossians 1:2²to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:2Eph 1:11 Cor 1:2Rom 1:7Rev 1:4Gal 1:3Ps 16:31 Cor 4:171 Pet 1:2Eph 6:21

Colossians 1:3³We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 1:22 Tim 1:3Col 1:9Rom 1:8-91 Cor 1:4Phil 1:3-51 Thess 3:10-13Col 1:132 Thess 2:16-17Eph 1:15

Colossians 1:4⁴since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:152 Thess 1:31 Thess 1:3Heb 6:10Phlm 1:51 John 4:163 John 1:3-4Gal 5:61 John 3:141 Thess 3:6

Colossians 1:5⁵Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospelCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:3-4Eph 1:132 Tim 4:8Titus 1:2Col 1:271 Cor 15:191 Pet 2:2Col 1:23Heb 7:191 John 3:3

Colossians 1:6⁶that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:16Phil 1:11Col 1:231 Pet 5:12Rom 10:17-18Rom 16:261 Pet 1:2-3Acts 12:24John 4:23Mark 16:15

Colossians 1:7⁷You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave —a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 4:12Phlm 1:23Col 4:7Heb 2:171 Cor 4:22 Tim 2:2Heb 3:2Phil 2:252 Cor 11:231 Cor 4:17

Colossians 1:8⁸who also told us of your love in the Spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 15:302 Tim 1:7Gal 5:22Rom 5:5Col 1:41 Pet 1:22

Colossians 1:9⁹For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:17Phil 1:9-11Jas 1:5Eph 1:15-201 Thess 5:17Col 4:51 Pet 2:15Heb 13:212 Thess 1:111 John 5:20

Colossians 1:10¹⁰so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects —bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:1Heb 13:212 Pet 1:2-3John 15:161 John 3:221 Thess 4:1Heb 13:16John 15:8Gal 5:22-23Prov 16:7

Colossians 1:11¹¹being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfullyCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 3:16Phil 4:13Eph 4:2Eph 6:10Rom 5:3-52 Cor 12:9-102 Cor 4:7Jas 1:2-4Jas 5:7-82 Cor 6:4-6

Colossians 1:12¹²giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 20:32Eph 1:11Eph 1:18Acts 26:181 Pet 1:2-5Eph 3:6Rom 8:172 Cor 5:51 John 3:1-3Heb 3:14

Colossians 1:13¹³He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:8Acts 26:181 Pet 2:9Titus 3:3-61 Thess 2:12Eph 6:121 Cor 6:9-11Eph 4:18Rom 14:171 John 3:14

Colossians 1:14¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:7Rom 3:24-251 Pet 1:19-20Heb 9:12Heb 9:22Rev 5:9Acts 13:38-39Gal 3:13Matt 20:28Eph 5:2

Colossians 1:15¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 1:3John 14:9John 1:12 Cor 4:4John 1:18John 1:14Ps 89:272 Cor 4:6Phil 2:61 Tim 1:17

Colossians 1:16¹⁶for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him—all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers—all things were created through him and for him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:36John 1:31 Cor 8:6Heb 2:101 Chr 29:11Heb 1:2Eph 1:10Isa 44:24Prov 16:4Heb 1:10-12

Colossians 1:17¹⁷He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 1:31 Cor 8:6Acts 17:28John 1:1-3John 17:5John 8:58Col 1:15Ps 75:3Rev 1:8Isa 44:6

Colossians 1:18¹⁸He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:22-23Rev 1:5Eph 4:15-161 Cor 15:20-23Acts 26:23Matt 28:18Ps 89:271 Cor 11:3Eph 5:23John 11:25-26

Colossians 1:19¹⁹For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the SonCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:9John 1:16Eph 1:23Col 2:3Col 3:11John 3:34Eph 1:3Eph 4:10Luke 10:21Eph 1:5

Colossians 1:20²⁰and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross—through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:18-21Eph 1:101 John 4:9-10Col 1:21-22Eph 2:13-17Heb 2:17Isa 9:6-7Rom 5:1Heb 13:20-21Zech 9:9-10

Colossians 1:21²¹And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:12Eph 2:1-3Titus 3:3-7Eph 4:18Rom 5:9-10Eph 2:19Rom 8:7-81 Cor 6:9-11Titus 1:15-16Rom 1:30

Colossians 1:22²²but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:27Eph 1:4Jude 1:24Heb 10:10Titus 2:14Rom 7:4Heb 10:202 Cor 11:2Eph 2:15-16Heb 13:21

Colossians 1:23²³if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 3:14Heb 3:6Matt 24:13-14Gal 6:9Heb 10:38Acts 14:22Col 1:5-6Rom 10:18Eph 3:17Heb 6:19

Colossians 1:24²⁴Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body—for the sake of his body, the church—what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 5:32 Tim 1:82 Cor 1:5-82 Tim 2:9-10Phil 3:102 Cor 7:4Eph 3:13Jas 1:2Matt 5:11-12Acts 5:41

Colossians 1:25²⁵I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God—given to me for you—in order to complete the word of God,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 3:2Col 1:23Gal 2:7-82 Tim 4:2-51 Thess 3:21 Tim 4:6Rom 15:15-191 Cor 9:17

Colossians 1:26²⁶that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:10Rom 16:25-26Eph 3:3-101 Cor 2:72 Tim 1:10Mark 4:11Matt 13:11Ps 25:14

Colossians 1:27²⁷God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:20Rom 8:10Eph 3:16-171 John 4:4Gal 2:201 Cor 3:16Rev 3:20John 14:17Eph 1:17-182 Cor 4:6

Colossians 1:28²⁸We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:27Jer 3:15Eph 4:11-13Matt 5:482 Tim 2:24-25Col 3:161 Cor 2:6Col 1:222 Cor 11:2Acts 20:31

Colossians 1:29²⁹Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:10Eph 1:191 Cor 9:25-27Eph 3:7Phil 2:132 Cor 12:9-10Col 2:1Heb 13:211 Cor 12:111 Thess 2:9