Colossians 1:9-20
Christian Standard Bible
Prayer for Spiritual Growth
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking(A) that you may be filled with the knowledge(B) of his will(C) in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,[a] 10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work(D) and growing in the knowledge of God,(E) 11 being strengthened(F) with all power,(G) according to his glorious(H) might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[b] to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.(I) 13 He has rescued(J) us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom(K) of the Son(L) he loves.(M) 14 In him we have redemption,[c] the forgiveness of sins.
The Centrality of Christ
15 He is the image of the invisible God,(N)
the firstborn over all creation.(O)
16 For everything was created by him,(P)
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.(Q)
17 He is before all things,(R)
and by him all things(S) hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,(T)
the firstborn from the dead,(U)
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
19 For God was pleased to have
all his fullness(V) dwell in him,(W)
20 and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace(X)
through his blood,(Y) shed on the cross.[d](Z)
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