The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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Colossians 1
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- 1:1
Paul, an
apostle of
Jesus
Christ
by the
will of
God,
and
Timotheus our
brother,
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- 1:2 To the
saints
and
faithful
brethren
in
Christ which are
at
Colosse:
Grace be unto
you,
and
peace,
from
God
our
Father
and the
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
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- 1:3 We give
thanks to
God
and the
Father of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
praying
always
for
you,
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- 1:4 Since we
heard of
your
faith
in
Christ
Jesus,
and of the
love
which ye have
to
all the
saints,
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- 1:5
For the
hope
which is laid
up for
you
in
heaven,
whereof ye heard
before
in the
word of the
truth of the
gospel;
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- 1:6
Which is
come
unto
you,
as
it is
in
all the
world;
and bringeth forth
fruit
* ,
as it doth
also
in
you,
since
the
day ye
heard of it,
and
knew the
grace of
God
in
truth:
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- 1:7
As
ye
also
learned
of
Epaphras
our
dear
fellowservant,
who
is
for
you a
faithful
minister of
Christ;
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- 1:8
Who
also
declared unto
us
your
love
in the
Spirit.
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- 1:9
For this
cause
we
also,
since
the
day we
heard it,
do
not
cease to
pray
for
you,
and to
desire
that ye might be
filled with the
knowledge of
his
will
in
all
wisdom
and
spiritual
understanding;
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- 1:10 That
ye might
walk
worthy of the
Lord
unto
all
pleasing, being
fruitful
in
every
good
work,
and
increasing
in the
knowledge of
God;
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- 1:11
Strengthened
with
all
might, according
to
his
glorious
power,
unto
all
patience
and
longsuffering
with
joyfulness;
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- 1:12 Giving
thanks unto the
Father,
which hath
made
us
meet
to be
partakers of the
inheritance of the
saints
in
light:
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- 1:13
Who hath
delivered
us
from the
power of
darkness,
and hath
translated us
into the
kingdom of
his
dear
Son:
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- 1:14
In
whom we
have
redemption
through
his
blood, even the
forgiveness of
sins:
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- 1:15
Who
is the
image of the
invisible
God, the
firstborn of
every
creature:
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- 1:16
For
by
him
were all
things
created, that are
in
heaven,
and that are
in
earth,
visible
and
invisible,
whether they be
thrones,
or
dominions,
or
principalities,
or
powers: all
things were
created
by
him,
and
for
him:
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- 1:17
And
he
is
before all
things,
and
by
him all
things
consist.
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- 1:18
And
he
is the
head of the
body, the
church:
who
is the
beginning, the
firstborn
from the
dead;
that
in
all things
he might
have the
preeminence.
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- 1:19 For it
pleased the Father
that
in
him
should
all
fulness
dwell;
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- 1:20
And, having made
peace
through the
blood of
his
cross,
by
him to
reconcile all
things
unto
himself;
by
him, I say,
whether they be things
in
earth,
or things
in
heaven.
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- 1:21
And
you, that
were
sometime
alienated
and
enemies in your
mind
by
wicked
works,
yet
now hath he
reconciled
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- 1:22
In the
body of
his
flesh
through
death, to
present
you
holy
and
unblameable
and
unreproveable in
his
sight:
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- 1:23
If ye
continue in the
faith
grounded
and
settled,
and be
not moved
away
from the
hope of the
gospel,
which ye have
heard, and
which was
preached
to
every
creature which is
under
heaven;
whereof
I
Paul am
made a
minister;
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- 1:24
Who
now
rejoice
in
my
sufferings
for
you,
and fill
up that which is
behind of the
afflictions of
Christ
in
my
flesh
for
his
body's
sake, which
is the
church:
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- 1:25
Whereof
I am
made a
minister, according
to the
dispensation of
God
which is
given to
me
for
you, to
fulfil the
word of
God;
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- 1:26 Even the
mystery
which hath been
hid
from
ages
and
from
generations,
but
now is made
manifest to
his
saints:
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- 1:27 To
whom
God
would make
known
what is the
riches of the
glory of
this
mystery
among the
Gentiles;
which
is
Christ
in
you, the
hope of
glory:
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- 1:28
Whom
we
preach,
warning
every
man,
and
teaching
every
man
in
all
wisdom;
that we may
present
every
man
perfect
in
Christ
Jesus:
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- 1:29
Whereunto
*
I
also
labour,
striving according
to
his
working,
which
worketh
in
me
mightily
*.
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