Colossians 1
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Greeting
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will,#1Co 1:1; 2Co 1:1; Eph 1:1; 2Tm 1:1 and Timothy#Ac 16:1; 1Tm 1:2 our brother:
2To the saints in Christ at Colossae, who are faithful brothers and sisters.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father.#1:2 Other mss add and the Lord Jesus Christ
Thanksgiving
3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints 5because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth,#Ps 119:142; Jn 14:6; 2Co 11:10; Eph 1:13; 2Tm 2:15; 3Jn 3 the gospel 6that has come to you. It is bearing fruit#Mk 4:8 and growing all over the world,#Mt 13:38; 24:14; Rm 3:6; 2Pt 2:20 just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate#2Th 2:10 God’s grace.#1:6 Or and truly recognized God’s grace#2Pt 3:18 7You learned this from Epaphras,#Col 4:12; Phm 23 our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 on your#1:7 Other mss read our behalf, 8and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.#Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Ti 3:5; Rv 1:10; 3:22
Prayer for Spiritual Growth
9For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking#Jn 14:13; Jms 1:5 that you may be filled with the knowledge#Pr 2:6; Col 3:10 of his will#Eph 1:9 in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,#1:9 Or all spiritual wisdom and understanding 10so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work#2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10 and growing in the knowledge of God,#Pr 2:6; Jn 17:3; 2Pt 1:2; 1Jn 4:8 11being strengthened#Php 4:13 with all power,#Ac 4:33; 2Co 13:4 according to his glorious#Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18 might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you#1:12 Other mss read us to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.#Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46 13He has rescued#Mt 27:43 us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom#Mt 3:2; Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25 of the Son#Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 he loves.#Mt 3:17; Jn 3:16; 15:10; 17:26; 1Jn 4:16 14In him we have redemption,#1:14 Other mss add through his blood the forgiveness of sins.
The Centrality of Christ
15He is the image of the invisible God,#Php 2:6
the firstborn over all creation.#Jn 1:3; Rv 3:14
16For everything was created by him,#Gn 1:1; Mk 13:19
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities —
all things have been created through him and for him.#Jn 1:3; Rm 11:36; 1Co 8:6; Eph 1:10,21
17He is before all things,#Jn 1:1–2; 8:58; Heb 1:2–3
and by him all things#Ps 104:24 hold together.
18He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,#Gn 1:1; Mk 1:1; Jn 1:1; Ac 26:4
the firstborn from the dead,#Ac 26:23; 1Co 15:20,23; Rv 1:5
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
19For God was pleased to have
all his fullness#Ps 72:19; Is 6:3; Jr 23:24; Ezk 43:5; 44:4; Jn 1:14,16; Eph 3:19; Php 2:6; Col 2:9 dwell in him,#Dt 12:5
20and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace#Ac 7:26; Eph 2:14
through his blood,#Heb 9:12 shed on the cross.#1:20 Other mss add through him#Lk 9:23; 23:26
21Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. 22But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death,#Php 2:8 to present you holy, faultless,#Jd 24 and blameless before him#2Co 4:14 — 23if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith#Gl 2:16; Jd 3 and are not shifted away from the hope#1Th 1:3 of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation#Rv 3:14 under heaven,#Rm 10:18; Eph 6:9 and I, Paul,#Ac 13:9 have become a servant of it.
Paul’s Ministry
24Now I rejoice in my sufferings#2Co 1:4; Php 1:29; 3:10 for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,#Eph 4:4 that is, the church. 25I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. 27God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ#Col 2:2 in you, the hope#1Th 1:3 of glory. 28We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29I labor for this, striving#Jd 3 with his strength that works powerfully in me.#1Co 15:10
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Colossians 1
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1Sha'ul a Shliach of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua through the ratzon Hashem#1:1 Co 1:9 and Timotiyos the Ach b'Moshiach;
2To the Kedoshim in Colossae, the Achim b'Moshiach, the Achim HaNe'emanim. Chen v'Chesed Hashem to you and shalom from Elohim Avinu.
3Hodinu l'Hashem (we give thanks to Hashem) Elohim HaAv of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, davening always concerning you,
4Having heard of your emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua and the ahavah which you have for all the Kedoshim,
5On account of the tikvah (hope) being laid up for you in Shomayim, the tikvah which you heard of before in the Dvar HaEmes, the Besuras HaGeulah
6That has come to you, as also in all the Olam Hazeh it is bearing p'ri and growing, so also in you, from the day you heard it and began to have saving da'as of the Chen v'Chesed Hashem in actuality.
7This you learned from Epaphras,#1:7 Co 4:12 our chaver and fellow eved, who is ne'eman (faithful), who is a trusted keli kodesh (minister) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach for you.
8Epaphras also revealed to us your ahavah in the Ruach Hakodesh.
9Therefore, we also, from the day that we heard, do not cease davening for you and offering tefillos that you be filled with da'as of the ratzon Hashem#1:9 Co 1:1 in all chochmah and binah in the Ruach Hakodesh.
10And this is the purpose: that you walk in hitnahagut (conduct) worthy of Adoneinu in every way pleasing to him in every mitzvoh bearing p'ri in the da'as of Hashem,
11With all ko'ach being empowered according to the gevurah (power) of his kavod for all savlanut (patience) and orech ruach (longsuffering) with lev same'ach (glad heart),
12Giving todot to Elohim HaAv. Elohim HaAv is the One who has qualified you for the share of the allotted nachalah#1:12 Ps 16:5-6 (inheritance) of the Kedoshim in Ohr (Light);
13Elohim HaAv is the One who rescued nafsheinu (our souls) from the memshalet (dominion) of Choshech and transferred us into the Malchut of the Zun fun der Oybershter of His ahavah,
14In whom we have the pedut (redemption, Geulah release on payment of ransom) through the [kapporah] dahm of Moshiach the selicha (forgiveness) of chatoteinu (our sins).
15Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the demut#1:15 Gn 1:26-27; Pp 2:6 of the invisible G-d, the Bechor,#1:15 Ps 89:27 the Yoresh (Heir) of kol hanivrah (all creation),
16Because in Him were created all things in Shomayim and on Ha'Aretz, the visible and the nistar (hidden), whether thrones or dominions, whether rulers or authorities, all things through Him and for Him have been created.#1:16 Ps 33:6
17And Moshiach is before all things, and all things in Moshiach have been held together;#1:17 Prov 8:23-27; 30:4
18And Moshiach is the Rosh#1:18 Prov 8:22; 30:4 of the Geviyah (Body),#1:18 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Isa 53:11; Job 19:25-27 and the Geviyah#1:18 Dt 21:23 (nevilah) is Moshiachʼs Brit Chadasha Kehillah; Moshiach is its Reshit, the Bechor from the Mesim, that Moshiach might be in everything pre-eminent,#1:18 Ps 89:27
19Because Hashem was pleased that all His fullness have its mishkan (tabernacle) in Moshiach,
20And through Moshiach to bring ritztzuy (reconciliation, cessation of enmity, hostility between a wrathful holy G-d and sinful Bnei Adam) between all things and Himself, having made shalom through the dahm of the kapporah of HaEtz HaMoshiach,#1:20 Dt 21:23; Isa 52:15; Lv 16:15-16 whether the things on HaAretz or the things in HaShomayim.
21And you, once having been alienated and oyvim (enemies) in the mind by ma'asim hara'im (evil deeds),
22Yet now Moshiach reconciled in the Guf (body)#1:22 Co 1:18 of his basar#1:22 Ps 16:9-10 through Moshiachʼs histalkus#1:22 Dan 9:26; Isa 53:8-9 to present you, Kedoshim holy and without mum#1:22 Lv 22:20 (defect) and without reproach before Him,
23Provided you remain in the#1:23 correct Orthodox Jewish Emunah,#1:23 Faith, the Emunah of the true Dat HaYehudit having been founded in it and securely established and not moving away from the tikvah (hope) of the Besuras HaGeulah which you heard, the Besuras HaGeulah which has been proclaimed in kol hanivrah (all creation) under Shomayim, the Besuras HaGeulah of which I, Rav Sha'ul, became a keli kodesh (minister).
24Now with lev same'ach (glad heart) and chedvah (rejoicing) I rejoice in my suffering tzoros on behalf of you. And I am mashlim (supply what is deficient) the things lacking of the Chevlei Moshiach in my basar on behalf of the basar of Moshiach#1:24 Co 1:18 which is the Brit Chadasha Kehillah,
25Of which I became a keli kodesh#1:25 Co 1:23 according to the pekudat Hashem (stewardship of G-d, His shlichus commission) which was given to me for you, to carry to shleimut (wholeness, completion) the Dvar Hashem,
26The raz (mystery) having been hidden from olamim and from dor v'dor, but now made manifest to the Kedoshim of Moshiach,
27To whom Hashem wanted to make hisgalus of what is the spiritual osher of the kavod of this raz among the non-Jews: Moshiach in you, the tikvah of kavod.
28It is Moshiach who is the subject of our hattafah (preaching), warning every man and teaching every man in all chochmah, that we may present every man Bnei Chayil mature in Moshiach.
29For this also I toil, striving according to the hitlahavut (inspiration, enthusiasm) of Him working in me with gevurah.
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