ng to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

(20)Now to God and our Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

(21)Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me
salute you.

(22)All the saints salute you, but especially they that are of
Caesar's household.

(23)The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS.

I.

PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the
brother, (2)to the saints in Colosse, and faithful brethren in Christ:
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

(3)We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
always for you, (4)having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of
the love which ye have toward all the saints, (5)because of the hope
which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye heard before in the
word of the truth of the gospel; (6)which is come to you, as also in
all the world, and is bringing forth fruit and increasing also in you,
since the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth; (7)as
ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a
faithful minister of Christ, (8)who also made known to us your love in
the Spirit.

(9)For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of
his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; (10)that ye may
walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, bringing forth fruit in
every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; (11)being
strengthened with all strength, according to his glorious power, unto
all patience and long-suffering with joy; (12)giving thanks to the
Father, who made us meet for the portion of the inheritance of the
saints in light; (13)who delivered us out of the power of darkness,
and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; (14)in whom
we have the redemption, the remission of our sins; (15)who is the
image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature,
(16)because in him were all things created, the things in the heavens,
and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things have
been created by him, and for him; (17)and he is before all things, and
in him all things subsist. (18)And he is the head of the body, the
church; who is the beginning, the first-born from