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Colossians Chapter 1

Colossians
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Colossians

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The apostle Paul writes to the church in Colossae, affirming the supremacy of Christ over all created things. He declares that no law can redeem us, only God's grace through faith, and that Christ is the head of the church and the image of the invisible God.

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(1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,
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Romans 1:1I Corinthians 1:1II Corinthians 1:1Ephesians 1:1Philippians 1:1I Thessalonians 1:1II Thessalonians 1:1Philemon 1:1

(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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Psalms 16:3I Corinthians 1:2Galatians 3:9Ephesians 1:1I Corinthians 4:17Ephesians 6:21Romans 1:7Galatians 1:3I Peter 1:2II Peter 1:2Jude 1:2Revelation 1:4

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Romans 11:6I Corinthians 15:10

(3) We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
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Romans 1:8Romans 1:9I Corinthians 1:4Ephesians 1:15Philippians 1:3Philippians 1:4Philippians 1:5Philippians 4:6I Thessalonians 1:2Colossians 1:9Colossians 1:13Ephesians 3:14

(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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Colossians 1:9II Corinthians 7:7Ephesians 1:15I Thessalonians 3:6III John 1:3III John 1:4Galatians 5:6I Thessalonians 1:3I Thessalonians 4:9I Thessalonians 4:10II Thessalonians 1:3Philemon 1:5

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Luke 6:32Hosea 3:1Ephesians 1:15Philemon 1:5I John 2:15I John 4:16

(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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Colossians 1:23Colossians 1:27Acts 23:6Acts 24:15Acts 26:6Acts 26:7I Corinthians 13:13I Corinthians 15:19Galatians 5:5Ephesians 1:18Ephesians 1:19II Thessalonians 2:16

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Romans 8:24Colossians 1:23I Corinthians 9:16I Corinthians 9:10I Corinthians 9:18

(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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Colossians 1:23Psalms 98:3Matthew 24:14Matthew 28:19Mark 16:15Romans 10:18Romans 15:19Romans 16:26II Corinthians 10:14Colossians 1:10Mark 4:8Mark 4:26

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John 15:19Matthew 7:17Luke 6:43Romans 11:6Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11

(7) As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
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Colossians 4:12Philemon 1:23Philippians 2:19Philippians 2:20Philippians 2:21Philippians 2:22Philippians 2:25Numbers 12:7Matthew 24:45Matthew 25:21I Corinthians 4:2I Corinthians 4:17

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Colossians 4:7

(8) Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
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Colossians 1:4Romans 5:5Romans 15:30Galatians 5:22II Timothy 1:7I Peter 1:22

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Luke 6:32Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18

(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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Colossians 1:3Colossians 1:4Colossians 1:6Romans 1:8Romans 1:9Romans 1:10Ephesians 1:15Ephesians 1:16I Samuel 12:23Acts 12:5Philippians 1:4I Thessalonians 1:3

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Exodus 31:3Exodus 35:31Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 9:10Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 7:12

(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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Colossians 2:6Colossians 4:5Micah 4:5Romans 4:12Romans 6:4Ephesians 4:1Ephesians 5:2Ephesians 5:15Philippians 1:27I Thessalonians 2:12Colossians 3:20Proverbs 16:7

(11) Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
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Isaiah 45:24II Corinthians 12:9Ephesians 3:16Ephesians 6:10Philippians 4:13Exodus 15:6Psalms 63:2Acts 1:8II Corinthians 4:7Jude 1:25Proverbs 24:10Acts 5:41

(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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Colossians 3:15Colossians 3:17I Chronicles 29:20Psalms 79:13Psalms 107:21Psalms 107:22Psalms 116:7Daniel 2:23Ephesians 5:4Ephesians 5:20Colossians 2:2John 4:23

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Isaiah 30:26Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36

(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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Isaiah 49:24Isaiah 49:25Isaiah 53:12Matthew 12:29Matthew 12:30Acts 26:18Hebrews 2:14Luke 22:53John 12:31John 12:32II Corinthians 4:4Ephesians 4:18

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Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11

(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
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Matthew 20:28Acts 20:28Romans 3:24Romans 3:25Galatians 3:13Ephesians 1:7Ephesians 5:2I Timothy 2:6Titus 2:14Hebrews 9:12Hebrews 9:22Hebrews 10:12

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Ephesians 1:7

(15) Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
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Exodus 24:10Numbers 12:8Ezekiel 1:26Ezekiel 1:27Ezekiel 1:28John 1:18John 14:9John 15:24II Corinthians 4:4II Corinthians 4:6Philippians 2:6Hebrews 1:3

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Exodus 11:5Exodus 12:29Exodus 13:15Leviticus 26:1Revelation 13:15Numbers 3:13

(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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Colossians 1:15Psalms 102:25Psalms 102:26Psalms 102:27Isaiah 40:9Isaiah 40:10Isaiah 40:11Isaiah 40:12Isaiah 44:24John 1:3I Corinthians 8:6Ephesians 3:9

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Genesis 1:27Genesis 5:2Isaiah 45:18Isaiah 54:16Revelation 4:11Deuteronomy 4:32

(17) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
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Colossians 1:15Proverbs 8:22Proverbs 8:23Isaiah 43:11Isaiah 43:12Isaiah 43:13Isaiah 44:6Micah 5:2John 1:1John 1:2John 1:3John 8:58

(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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Colossians 1:24Colossians 2:10Colossians 2:11Colossians 2:12Colossians 2:13Colossians 2:14I Corinthians 11:3Ephesians 1:10Ephesians 1:22Ephesians 1:23Ephesians 4:15Ephesians 4:16

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Exodus 11:5Exodus 12:29Exodus 13:15I Corinthians 15:44Deuteronomy 21:17Numbers 3:13

(19) For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
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Colossians 2:3Colossians 2:9Colossians 3:11Matthew 11:25Matthew 11:26Matthew 11:27Luke 10:21John 1:16John 3:34Ephesians 1:3Ephesians 1:23Ephesians 4:10

(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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Colossians 1:21Colossians 1:22Leviticus 6:30Psalms 85:10Psalms 85:11Isaiah 9:6Isaiah 9:7Ezekiel 45:17Ezekiel 45:18Ezekiel 45:19Ezekiel 45:20Daniel 9:24

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Ephesians 2:16Romans 14:8I Corinthians 13:8

(21) And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
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Romans 1:30Romans 5:9Romans 5:10Romans 8:7Romans 8:8I Corinthians 6:9I Corinthians 6:10I Corinthians 6:11Ephesians 2:1Ephesians 2:2Ephesians 2:12Ephesians 2:19

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Ezekiel 23:18Romans 5:10Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

(22) In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
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Romans 7:4Ephesians 2:15Ephesians 2:16Hebrews 10:10Hebrews 10:20Luke 1:75II Corinthians 11:2Ephesians 1:4Ephesians 5:27I Thessalonians 4:7Titus 2:14II Peter 3:14

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I Corinthians 15:44I Corinthians 5:3Luke 11:34I Corinthians 12:12

(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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Psalms 92:13Psalms 92:14Psalms 125:5Ezekiel 18:26Hosea 6:3Hosea 6:4Zephaniah 1:6Matthew 24:13Luke 8:13Luke 8:14Luke 8:15Luke 22:32

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Hebrews 4:2Romans 8:24Hebrews 11:7Colossians 1:5I Thessalonians 3:2I Peter 1:12

(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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Matthew 5:11Matthew 5:12Acts 5:41Romans 5:3II Corinthians 7:4Ephesians 3:1Ephesians 3:13Philippians 2:17Philippians 2:18James 1:2II Corinthians 1:5II Corinthians 1:6

(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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Colossians 1:23I Thessalonians 3:2I Timothy 4:6Romans 15:15Romans 15:16Romans 15:17Romans 15:18I Corinthians 9:17Galatians 2:7Galatians 2:8Ephesians 3:2Romans 15:19

(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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Romans 16:25Romans 16:26I Corinthians 2:7Ephesians 3:3Ephesians 3:4Ephesians 3:5Ephesians 3:6Ephesians 3:7Ephesians 3:8Ephesians 3:9Ephesians 3:10Psalms 25:14

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Matthew 1:17

(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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I Corinthians 2:12I Corinthians 2:13I Corinthians 2:14II Corinthians 2:14II Corinthians 4:6Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16Colossians 2:3Romans 9:23Romans 11:33Ephesians 1:7Ephesians 1:17

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Romans 8:24Romans 11:12I Corinthians 9:10

(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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Acts 3:20Acts 5:42Acts 8:5Acts 8:35Acts 9:20Acts 10:36Acts 11:20Acts 13:38Acts 17:3Acts 17:18Romans 16:25I Corinthians 1:23

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I Corinthians 2:6I Kings 4:30

(29) Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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Colossians 4:12I Corinthians 15:10II Corinthians 5:9II Corinthians 6:5II Corinthians 11:23Philippians 2:16I Thessalonians 2:9II Thessalonians 3:8II Timothy 2:10Revelation 2:3Colossians 2:1Luke 13:24

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