# Colossians 1

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/colossians/1

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through God's will, and Timothy the brother.
2. To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: grace and peace to you from God our Father.
3. We thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you.
4. having heard your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints
5. Because of the hope reserved for you in the heavens, which you heard beforehand in the word of truth—the gospel.
6. which has come to you, as it also bears fruit and grows throughout the whole world, just as it does among you from the day you heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.
7. as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for us
8. who also made your love known to us in the Spirit.
9. For this reason, since the day we heard, we also do not cease praying for you and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
10. Walk worthily of the Lord to be fully pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.
11. being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy
12. thanking the Father who qualified you for a share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
13. who rescued us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
14. In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15. who is the image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation.
16. Because in him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth—the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him.
17. And he is before all things, and all things hold together in him.
18. And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, firstborn from the dead, so that he himself might become preeminent in all things.
19. For all the fullness was well pleased to dwell in him.
20. and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross—through him—whether things on the earth or things in the heavens.
21. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by your evil deeds,
22. But now he has reconciled you in the body of his flesh through his death to present you holy and faultless and blameless before him.
23. If indeed you persist in the faith, founded and firm, without drifting from the hope of the gospel—which you heard, proclaimed in all creation under heaven—I, Paul, became a servant.
24. Now I rejoice in sufferings endured for your sake, and I fill up the deficiencies in Christ's afflictions in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church.
25. Of which I became a servant according to the stewardship of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God.
26. The mystery hidden from ages and generations has now been revealed to his saints.
27. To them God willed to reveal what the glorious riches of this mystery are among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28. We proclaim him, admonishing every person and teaching every person in all wisdom, so that we may present every person perfect in Christ.
29. For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works powerfully in me.

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[Philippians 4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/philippians/4.md)
[Colossians 2](https://www.lumin.faith/read/colossians/2.md)

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