Colossians 1:2-14
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
2 To the saints (the consecrated people of God) and [a]believing and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossae: Grace (spiritual favor and blessing) to you and [heart] peace from God our Father.
3 We [b]continually give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), as we are praying for you,
4 For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus [[c]the leaning of your entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness] and of the love which you [have and show] for all the saints (God’s consecrated ones),
5 Because of the hope [of experiencing what is] laid up ([d]reserved and waiting) for you in heaven. Of this [hope] you heard in the past in the message of the truth of the Gospel,
6 Which has come to you. Indeed, in the whole world [that Gospel] is bearing fruit and still is growing [e][by its own inherent power], even as it has done among yourselves ever since the day you first heard and came to know and understand the grace of God in truth. [You came to know the grace or undeserved favor of God in reality, deeply and clearly and thoroughly, becoming accurately and intimately acquainted with it.]
7 You so learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ in our stead and as our representative and [f]yours.
8 Also he has informed us of your love in the [Holy] Spirit.
9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make [[g]special] request for you, [asking] that you may be filled with the [h]full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [[i]in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God] and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things—
10 That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and [j]desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, [k]acquaintance, and recognition].
11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,
12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the [l]portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.
13 [The Father] has delivered and [m]drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son [n]of His love,
14 In Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of our sins.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 1:2 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament: “Continually” belongs with “give thanks,” not elsewhere.
- Colossians 1:4 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.
- Colossians 1:5 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:6 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
- Colossians 1:7 Many ancient manuscripts read “yours.”
- Colossians 1:9 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:9 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:9 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
- Colossians 1:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:10 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- Colossians 1:13 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- Colossians 1:13 Literal translation.
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