Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Colossians
Weymouth, Richard Francis, 1822-1902
English
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Book 51 Colossians
001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--
and Timothy our brother:
001:002 To the people of God and the believing brethren at Colossae
who are in Christ. May grace and peace be granted to you
from God our Father.
001:003 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
constantly praying for you as we do,
001:004 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of
the love which you cherish towards all God's people,
001:005 on account of the hope treasured up for you in Heaven.
Of this hope you have already heard in the Message of the truth
of the Good News.
001:006 For it has reached you, and remains with you, just as it has
also spread through the whole world, yielding fruit there
and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when
first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God,
001:007 as you learned it from Epaphras our dearly-loved fellow servant.
He is to you a faithful minister of Christ in our stead,
001:008 and moreover he has informed us of your love, which is inspired
by the Spirit.
001:009 For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings,
have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you
may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied
by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;
001:010 so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly
pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action
of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.
001:011 Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened
with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully
enduring all things with patience and long-suffering;
001:012 and give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive
our share of the inheritance of God's people in Light.
001:013 It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness,
and has transferred us into the Kingdom of His dearly-loved Son,
001:014 in whom we have our redemption--the forgiveness of our sins.
001:015 Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God,
the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.
001:016 For in Him was created the universe of things in heaven
and on earth, things seen and things unseen, thrones,
dominions, princedoms, powers--all were created, and exist
through and for Him.
001:017 And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe
is a harmonious whole.
001:018 Moreover He is the Head of His Body, the Church.
He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, in order
that He Himself may in all things occupy the foremost place.
001:019 For it was the Father's gracious will that the whole of the divine
perfections should dwell in Him.
001:020 And God purposed through Him to reconcile the universe to Himself,
making peace through His blood, which was shed upon the Cross--
to reconcile to Himself through Him, I say, things on earth
and things in Heaven.
001:021 And you, estranged as you once were and even hostile in your minds,
amidst your evil deeds,
001:022 He has now, in His human body, reconciled to God by His death,
to bring you, holy and faultless and irreproachable,
into His presence;
001:023 if, indeed, you are still firmly holding to faith as your foundation,
without ever shifting from your hope that rests on the Good News
that you have heard, which has been proclaimed in the whole
creation under Heaven, and in which I Paul have been
appointed to serve.
001:024 Now I can find joy amid my sufferings for you, and I fill up
in my own person whatever is lacking in Christ's afflictions
on behalf of His Body, the Church.
001:025 I have been appointed to serve the Church in the position
of responsibility entrusted to me by God for your benefit,
so that I may fully deliver God's Message--
001:026 the truth which has been kept secret from all ages and generations,
but has now been revealed to His people,
001:027 to whom it was His will to make known how vast a wealth
of glory for the Gentile world is implied in this truth--
the truth that `Christ is in you, the hope of glory.'
001:028 Him we preach, admonishing every one and instructing every one,
with all possible wisdom, so that we may bring every one into
God's presence, made perfect through Christ.
001:029 To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my
strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily
at work within me.
002:001 For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged
on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all
who have not known me personally,
002:002 in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves
being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages
of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full
knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.
002:003 In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up,
hidden from view.
002:004 I say this to prevent your being misled by any
one's plausible sophistry.
002:005 For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body,
yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness
your good discipline and the solid front presented by your
faith in Christ.
002:006 As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord,
live and act in vital union with Him;
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