\subsection{Colossians 1}
\VS{1} Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through [the] will of God and Timothy his brother, 
to the holy [ones] in Colossae and to the believing brothers in Christ, 
\VS{2} grace to you and peace from God our father\footnote{text: BD; add ``and [our] lord 
Jesus Christ" \sinaiticus{} \koine }. 

\VS{3} We always give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ 
concerning you when praying, 
\VS{4} having heard [of] your faith in Christ Jesus 
and the agape-love which you have for all the holy [ones], 
\VS{5} because of the 
hope laid up for you in the heavens which you heard beforehand in the word 
of the truth of the good-news being at hand to you, 
\VS{6} just as in all 
the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as [it is] also among you from 
which day you believed and recognized the grace of God in truth, 
\VS{7} just 
as you were learning from Epaphras our agape-beloved fellow-slave, who is 
[a] trustworthy servant for you, of Christ, 
\VS{8} and the [one] having declared to 
us your agape-love in [the] spirit. 
\VS{9} Because of this we also, from which day we heard, 
cease not to be praying for you and asking\fnAiteo{} so that you be filled [with] 
the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 
\VS{10} to walk worthy of the Lord in all desire-to-please in every good 
work, bearing fruit and increasing in the knowledge of God, 
\VS{11} in all 
strength being strengthened according to the power of his glory for all 
endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks 
\VS{12} to the father having 
rendered you\footnote{``you": \sinaiticus{}B; ``us": D \koine } fit for the portion of 
the share of the holy [ones] in the light, 
\VS{13} who delivered us out of the power of the darkness and brought us into the 
kingdom of his agape-beloved son, 
\VS{14} in which we have the deliverance, the forgiveness of sins, 
\VS{15} who is [the] image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation, 
\VS{16} because in him was created everything in the heavens and on the 
land, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones or dominions or 
principalities or power; everything through him and for him has been 
created. 
\VS{17} And he himself is before everything, and everything in him 
consists, 
\VS{18} and he himself is the head of the body, of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, who 
is [the] beginning, [the] firstborn of the dead, that he himself come in all [to] be 
having first place. 
\VS{19} For in him all the fullness was well-pleased to 
dwell, 
\VS{20} and through him everything [was well-pleased] to be reconciled to him, having 
made peace through the blood of his cross through him, whether the [things] upon the 
earth or the [things] in the heavens. 
\VS{21} And you formerly being alienated and 
hostile in your mind by the wicked works, 
\VS{22} but now he reconciled [you] in 
the body of his flesh through his death to present you holy and blameless 
and irreproachable in his presence, 
\VS{23} if indeed you still abide in the 
faith, having been strengthened and steadfast and not shifting from the hope 
of the good-news which you heard, the [one] having been proclaimed in all 
creation under heaven, of which I Paul became [a] servant. 
\VS{24} Now I rejoice in the sufferings in behalf [of you], and complete the 
deficiency of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body which is 
the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, 
\VS{25} of which I became [a] servant according to the administration of God, 
the [one] having been given to me for you to complete the word of God, 
\VS{26} the mystery having been concealed from eternity and from the generations --- but now it has been revealed to his holy [ones], 
\VS{27} to whom God wished to 
make known what [are] the riches of the glory of the mystery among the nations, 
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, 
\VS{28} which we ourselves 
proclaim admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, in 
order that we ourselves present every man complete in Christ, 
\VS{29} for 
which also I labor, struggling according to his working, the [one] working in you 
in power.
