歌罗西书 1
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
1 奉神旨意做基督耶稣使徒的保罗，和兄弟提摩太， 2 写信给歌罗西的圣徒，在基督里有忠心的弟兄。愿恩惠、平安从神我们的父归于你们！
为门徒的信与爱与望感谢神
3 我们感谢神我们主耶稣基督的父，常常为你们祷告， 4 因听见你们在基督耶稣里的信心并向众圣徒的爱心—— 5 是为那给你们存在天上的盼望。这盼望就是你们从前在福音真理的道上所听见的。 6 这福音传到你们那里，也传到普天之下，并且结果、增长，如同在你们中间，自从你们听见福音真知道神恩惠的日子一样。 7 正如你们从我们所亲爱、一同做仆人的以巴弗所学的。他为我们[a]做了基督忠心的执事， 8 也把你们因圣灵所存的爱心告诉了我们。
为门徒加增智慧力量忍耐祷告神
9 因此，我们自从听见的日子，也就为你们不住地祷告祈求，愿你们在一切属灵的智慧悟性上，满心知道神的旨意， 10 好叫你们行事为人对得起主，凡事蒙他喜悦，在一切善事上结果子，渐渐地多知道神； 11 照他荣耀的权能，得以在各样的力上加力，好叫你们凡事欢欢喜喜地忍耐宽容。 12 又感谢父，叫我们能与众圣徒在光明中同得基业。 13 他救了我们脱离黑暗的权势，把我们迁到他爱子的国里； 14 我们在爱子里得蒙救赎，罪过得以赦免。
爱子是不能看见之神的像
15 爱子是那不能看见之神的像，是首生的，在一切被造的以先。 16 因为万有都是靠他造的，无论是天上的、地上的，能看见的、不能看见的，或是有位的、主治的、执政的、掌权的，一概都是借着他造的，又是为他造的。 17 他在万有之先，万有也靠他而立。 18 他也是教会全体之首。他是元始，是从死里首先复生的，使他可以在凡事上居首位， 19 因为父喜欢叫一切的丰盛在他里面居住。 20 既然借着他在十字架上所流的血成就了和平，便借着他叫万有，无论是地上的、天上的，都与自己和好了。 21 你们从前与神隔绝，因着恶行，心里与他为敌； 22 但如今他借着基督的肉身受死，叫你们与自己和好，都成了圣洁，没有瑕疵，无可责备，把你们引到自己面前。
应当稳固不离开福音的盼望
23 只要你们在所信的道上恒心，根基稳固，坚定不移，不致被引动失去[b]福音的盼望。这福音就是你们所听过的，也是传于普天下万人听的[c]。我保罗也做了这福音的执事。
24 现在我为你们受苦，倒觉欢乐，并且为基督的身体，就是为教会，要在我肉身上补满基督患难的缺欠。 25 我照神为你们所赐我的职分做了教会的执事，要把神的道理传得全备。 26 这道理就是历世历代所隐藏的奥秘，但如今向他的圣徒显明了。 27 神愿意叫他们知道，这奥秘在外邦人中有何等丰盛的荣耀，就是基督在你们心里成了有荣耀的盼望。
使各人在基督里完全
28 我们传扬他，是用诸般的智慧劝诫各人，教导各人，要把各人在基督里完完全全地引到神面前。 29 我也为此劳苦，照着他在我里面运用的大能尽心竭力。
Colossians 1
International Standard Version
Greetings from Paul
1 From:[a] Paul, an apostle of the Messiah[b] Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother.
2 To: The holy[c] and faithful brothers in Colossae who are in union with the Messiah.[d]
May grace and peace from God our Father[e] be yours!
Paul’s Prayer for the Colossians
3 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,[f] praying always for you, 4 because we have heard about your faith in the Messiah[g] Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints, 5 based on the hope laid up for you in heaven. Some time ago you heard about this hope[h] through the word of truth, the gospel 6 that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing[i] among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth. 7 You learned about this gospel[j] from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of the Messiah[k] on your[l] behalf. 8 He has told us about your love in the Spirit.
The Messiah is Above All
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God’s[m] will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him[n] as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God. 11 You are being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, so that you might patiently endure everything with joy 12 and might thank the Father, who has enabled us[o] to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. 13 God[p] has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves, 14 through whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
The Centrality of Jesus
15 The Son[q] is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
16 For by him all things in heaven and on earth were created,
things visible and invisible,
whether they are kings,[r] lords, rulers, or powers.
All things have been created through him and for him.
17 He himself existed before anything else did,
and he holds all things together.
18 He is also the head of the body,
which is the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
so that he himself might have first place in everything.
19 For God[s] was pleased to have
all of his divine essence[t] inhabit him.
20 Through the Son,[u] God[v] also reconciled all things to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
thereby making peace
through the blood of his cross.
21 You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,[w] 22 he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body, so that he may present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him. 23 However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.[x]
Paul’s Service in the Church
24 Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah’s[y] sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church. 25 I became its servant[z] as God commissioned me to work for you, so that I may complete my ministry of[aa] the word of God. 26 This secret was hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints, 27 to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles—which is the Messiah[ab] in you, our glorious hope. 28 It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish and wisely teach everyone, so that we may present everyone mature[ac] in the Messiah.[ad] 29 I work hard and struggle to do this, using the energy that he powerfully provides in me.
Footnotes
- Colossians 1:1 The Gk. lacks From
- Colossians 1:1 Or Christ
- Colossians 1:2 Or to the saints
- Colossians 1:2 Or Christ
- Colossians 1:2 Other mss. read from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah
- Colossians 1:3 Or Christ
- Colossians 1:4 Or Christ
- Colossians 1:5 Lit. about it
- Colossians 1:6 The Gk. lacks it has been doing
- Colossians 1:7 Lit. Just as you learned
- Colossians 1:7 Or Christ
- Colossians 1:7 Other mss. read our
- Colossians 1:9 Lit. his
- Colossians 1:10 Lit. to all pleasing
- Colossians 1:12 Other mss. read you
- Colossians 1:13 Lit. He
- Colossians 1:15 Lit. He
- Colossians 1:16 Lit. thrones
- Colossians 1:19 Lit. he
- Colossians 1:19 Lit. all of the fullness
- Colossians 1:20 Lit. Through him
- Colossians 1:20 Lit. he
- Colossians 1:21 Lit. in evil deeds
- Colossians 1:23 Or minister
- Colossians 1:24 Or Christ’s
- Colossians 1:25 Or minister
- Colossians 1:25 The Gk. lacks the ministry of
- Colossians 1:27 Or Christ
- Colossians 1:28 Or complete
- Colossians 1:28 Or Christ
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