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1. Greetings from Paul and Timothy

   (Philippians 1:1–2; Philemon 1:1–3)

2. 1UDBI, Paul, write this to the dear fellow believers in the city of Colossae. This is from Paul, whom God chose to send to you as an apostle of Christ Jesus, and this letter is also from Timothy, our fellow believer joined to Christ. We are sending this letter to all of you.BSBBSB: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
3. 2UDBWe send this letter to those God has set apart for himself—those who are faithful believers who belong to Christ. We pray that God our Father will give you his kindness and peace.BSBBSB: To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

4. Thanksgiving and Prayer

   (1 Corinthians 1:4–9; Philippians 1:3–11)

5. 3UDBWe often thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, while we are praying for you.BSBBSB: We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
6. 4UDBWe give God thanks because we have heard that you trust in Christ Jesus and that you love all those whom God has set apart for himself.BSBBSB: because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
7. 5UDBYou love our fellow believers because you confidently are waiting for the things God is reserving for you in heaven. You first heard about these things when you heard the true message, the good news about Christ.BSBBSB: the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel
8. 6UDBBelievers are proclaiming this good news that you heard in Colossae to everyone in the world. It is just as it has worked in you also, from the first day you heard it and understood how truly kind God is. The good news is like a field planted with crops that are growing and will give a very large harvest.BSBBSB: that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
9. 7UDBEpaphras taught you the good news. We love him because he serves Christ together with us and works for Christ faithfully in our place.BSBBSB: You learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
10. 8UDBHe told us that you love all God's people because God's Spirit has empowered you to love God and others.BSBBSB: and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
11. 9UDBSince the time we heard about how you love, we have always been praying for you. We ask God to show you everything he wants you to do and to make you wise so that you will understand what God's Spirit is teaching you.BSBBSB: For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
12. 10UDBWe pray that you will live in a way that will help others honor the Lord also, so that he will approve of you. We pray that you will grow to understand God more and do every good thing that he tells you to do.BSBBSB: so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
13. 11UDBWe pray that God will strengthen you with all his mighty power so that you will patiently endure every difficulty. We pray that you will rejoiceBSBBSB: being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
14. 12UDBand thank God our Father, because he has declared you worthy to be with the others whom he has set apart for himself; this is so he can give you all the things that he is keeping for you when you are with him in the light of his presence.BSBBSB: giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
15. 13UDBGod our Father has rescued us from the evil power of Satan and has brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son.BSBBSB: He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,
16. 14UDBThe Son has set us free from that evil, and when he set us free he also forgave our sins.BSBBSB: in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

17. The Supremacy of the Son

    (Hebrews 1:1–14)

18. 15UDBWhen we know the Son, we know what God is like even though we cannot see him. The Son has first place over everything that he has created.BSBBSB: The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
19. 16UDBFor the Son created all things, all that is in the heaven and all that is on earth, everything that we can see and everything that we cannot see, including angelic beings of all kinds and powers and authorities—all things exist because the Son created them, and they were made for him to use.BSBBSB: For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.
20. 17UDBThe Son himself existed before anything else, and he holds everything together.BSBBSB: He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
21. 18UDBHe is the head of his body, which is the church—like a person's head rules over every part of the body. He was the first person to come back to life with a perfect body, and so he has the highest honor of all.BSBBSB: And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
22. 19UDBGod the Father was pleased to make his full nature live in Christ.BSBBSB: For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
23. 20UDBIt also pleased God to bring everything back to himself in peace through Jesus. God offered peace to all people and all things everywhere on earth and in heaven. He did this by causing the Son to die on the cross as a sacrifice, shedding his blood as he died.BSBBSB: and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
24. 21UDBBefore you believed in Christ, God considered you his enemies, and you were unfriendly to God because you thought evil thoughts and because you did evil deeds.BSBBSB: Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
25. 22UDBBut now God has offered peace between yourselves and himself and has made you his friends. He did this when Jesus gave up his body and life for us by dying. This made it possible for us to belong to God; he finds nothing wrong in us now, nothing to blame us for.BSBBSB: But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
26. 23UDBBut you must continue to trust Christ completely. If you do, you will be like a house that they built on solid rock. You must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you had when you first heard the good news. I, Paul, have become a servant of this good news that is being proclaimed to everyone on the earth.BSBBSB: if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

27. Paul’s Suffering for the Church

    (2 Corinthians 11:16–33)

28. 24UDBNow I rejoice that I am suffering for your benefit. Yes, in order to help the church, which is like Christ's body, I suffer things that must still happen.BSBBSB: Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
29. 25UDBGod made me his servant and gave to me special work to do, which is to proclaim the full message of God to you.BSBBSB: I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,
30. 26UDBFrom ancient times, for generations, God did not tell this good news, but now he has revealed this mystery to those whom he has set apart for himself.BSBBSB: the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.
31. 27UDBIt is to people like yourselves that God planned to tell this wonderful secret. And the secret is that Christ will live in you and that you can confidently expect to share in God's glory!BSBBSB: To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
32. 28UDBWe are wisely warning and teaching every person about Christ so that we might bring into God's presence each one as knowing God completely, joined to Christ.BSBBSB: We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
33. 29UDBTo do this, I work my hardest because Christ is giving me strength.BSBBSB: To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

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