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 <div class="p">1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 2To God&#8217;s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters#1:2 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 4:15. in Christ:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p">Grace and peace to you from God our Father.#1:2 Some manuscripts Father and the Lord Jesus Christ</div><div class="s1">Thanksgiving and Prayer</div><div class="p"> 3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God&#8217;s people&#8212; 5the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world&#8212;just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God&#8217;s grace. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant,#1:7 Or slave who is a faithful minister of Christ on our#1:7 Some manuscripts your behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.</div><div class="p"> 9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,#1:9 Or all spiritual wisdom and understanding 10so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you#1:12 Some manuscripts us to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.</div><div class="s1">The Supremacy of the Son of God</div><div class="p"> 15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.</div><div class="p"> 21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of#1:21 Or minds, as shown by your evil behavior. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ&#8217;s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation&#8212; 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.</div>
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 <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1">A Prophecy Against Tyre</div><div class="p"> 1In the eleventh month of the twelfth#26:1 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have month of the twelfth. year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2&#8220;Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, &#8216;Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,&#8217; 3therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. 4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. 5Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations, 6and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.</div><div class="p"> 7&#8220;For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar#26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army. 8He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you. 9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons. 10His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. 11The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. 12They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea. 13I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more. 14I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.</div><div class="p"> 15&#8220;This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you? 16Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you. 17Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How you are destroyed, city of renown,</div><div class="q2">peopled by men of the sea!</div><div class="q1">You were a power on the seas,</div><div class="q2">you and your citizens;</div><div class="q1">you put your terror</div><div class="q2">on all who lived there.</div><div class="q1"> 18Now the coastlands tremble</div><div class="q2">on the day of your fall;</div><div class="q1">the islands in the sea</div><div class="q2">are terrified at your collapse.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 19&#8220;This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you, 20then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place#26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory in the land of the living. 21I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign Lord.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">53</div><div class="q1"> 1Who has believed our message</div><div class="q2">and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?</div><div class="q1"> 2He grew up before him like a tender shoot,</div><div class="q2">and like a root out of dry ground.</div><div class="q1">He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,</div><div class="q2">nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</div><div class="q1"> 3He was despised and rejected by mankind,</div><div class="q2">a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.</div><div class="q1">Like one from whom people hide their faces</div><div class="q2">he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Surely he took up our pain</div><div class="q2">and bore our suffering,</div><div class="q1">yet we considered him punished by God,</div><div class="q2">stricken by him, and afflicted.</div><div class="q1"> 5But he was pierced for our transgressions,</div><div class="q2">he was crushed for our iniquities;</div><div class="q1">the punishment that brought us peace was on him,</div><div class="q2">and by his wounds we are healed.</div><div class="q1"> 6We all, like sheep, have gone astray,</div><div class="q2">each of us has turned to our own way;</div><div class="q1">and the Lord has laid on him</div><div class="q2">the iniquity of us all.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7He was oppressed and afflicted,</div><div class="q2">yet he did not open his mouth;</div><div class="q1">he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,</div><div class="q2">and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,</div><div class="q2">so he did not open his mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 8By oppression#53:8 Or From arrest and judgment he was taken away.</div><div class="q2">Yet who of his generation protested?</div><div class="q1">For he was cut off from the land of the living;</div><div class="q2">for the transgression of my people he was punished.#53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?</div><div class="q1"> 9He was assigned a grave with the wicked,</div><div class="q2">and with the rich in his death,</div><div class="q1">though he had done no violence,</div><div class="q2">nor was any deceit in his mouth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10Yet it was the Lord&#8217;s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,</div><div class="q2">and though the Lord makes#53:10 Hebrew though you make his life an offering for sin,</div><div class="q1">he will see his offspring and prolong his days,</div><div class="q2">and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.</div><div class="q1"> 11After he has suffered,</div><div class="q2">he will see the light of life#53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life. and be satisfied#53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied;</div><div class="q1">by his knowledge#53:11 Or by knowledge of him my righteous servant will justify many,</div><div class="q2">and he will bear their iniquities.</div><div class="q1"> 12Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,#53:12 Or many</div><div class="q2">and he will divide the spoils with the strong,#53:12 Or numerous</div><div class="q1">because he poured out his life unto death,</div><div class="q2">and was numbered with the transgressors.</div><div class="q1">For he bore the sin of many,</div><div class="q2">and made intercession for the transgressors.</div>
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