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THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS
Colossa was a city of Phrygia, near Laodicea. It does not appear thatSt. Paul had preached there himself, but that the Colossians wereconverted by Epaphras, a disciple of the Apostles. However, as St. Paulwas the great Apostle of the Gentiles, he wrote this Epistle to theColossians when he was in prison, and about the same time that he wroteto the Ephesians and Philippians. The exhortations and doctrine itcontains are similar to that which is set forth in his Epistle to theEphesians.
Colossians Chapter 1
He gives thanks for the grace bestowed upon the Colossians and prays forthem. Christ is the head of the church and the peacemaker through hisblood. Paul is his minister.
1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy,a brother:
1:2. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus who are atColossa.
1:3. Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the LordJesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord JesusChrist, praying always for you.
1:4. Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you havetowards all the saints.
1:5. For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you haveheard in the word of the truth of the gospel,
1:6. Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world andbringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the dayyou heard and knew the grace of God in truth.
1:7. As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who isfor you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;
1:8. Who also hath manifested your love in the spirit.
1:9. Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to prayfor you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of hiswill, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:
1:10. That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; beingfruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:
1:11. Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory,in all patience and longsuffering with joy,
1:12. Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to bepartakers of the lot of the saints in light:
1:13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hathtranslated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,
1:14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission ofsins:
1:15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of everycreature: