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\subsection{Colossians 1}
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\VS{1} Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through [the] will of God and Timothy his brother,
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to the holy [ones] in Colossae and to the believing brothers in Christ,
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\VS{2} grace to you and peace from God our father\footnote{text: BD; add ``and [our] lord
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Jesus Christ" \sinaiticus{} \koine }.
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\VS{3} We always give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ
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concerning you when praying,
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\VS{4} having heard [of] your faith in Christ Jesus
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and the agape-love which you have for all the holy [ones],
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\VS{5} because of the
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hope laid up for you in the heavens which you heard beforehand in the word
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of the truth of the good-news being at hand to you,
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\VS{6} just as in all
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the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as [it is] also among you from
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which day you believed and recognized the grace of God in truth,
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\VS{7} just
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as you were learning from Epaphras our agape-beloved fellow-slave, who is
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[a] trustworthy servant for you, of Christ,
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\VS{8} and the [one] having declared to
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us your agape-love in [the] spirit.
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\VS{9} Because of this we also, from which day we heard,
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cease not to be praying for you and asking\fnAiteo{} so that you be filled [with]
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the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
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\VS{10} to walk worthy of the Lord in all desire-to-please in every good
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work, bearing fruit and increasing in the knowledge of God,
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\VS{11} in all
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strength being strengthened according to the power of his glory for all
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endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks
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\VS{12} to the father having
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rendered you\footnote{``you": \sinaiticus{}B; ``us": D \koine } fit for the portion of
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the share of the holy [ones] in the light,
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\VS{13} who delivered us out of the power of the darkness and brought us into the
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kingdom of his agape-beloved son,
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\VS{14} in which we have the deliverance, the forgiveness of sins,
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\VS{15} who is [the] image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation,
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\VS{16} because in him was created everything in the heavens and on the
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land, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones or dominions or
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principalities or power; everything through him and for him has been
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created.
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\VS{17} And he himself is before everything, and everything in him
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consists,
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\VS{18} and he himself is the head of the body, of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, who
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is [the] beginning, [the] firstborn of the dead, that he himself come in all [to] be
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having first place.
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\VS{19} For in him all the fullness was well-pleased to
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dwell,
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\VS{20} and through him everything [was well-pleased] to be reconciled to him, having
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made peace through the blood of his cross through him, whether the [things] upon the
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earth or the [things] in the heavens.
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\VS{21} And you formerly being alienated and
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hostile in your mind by the wicked works,
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\VS{22} but now he reconciled [you] in
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the body of his flesh through his death to present you holy and blameless
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and irreproachable in his presence,
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\VS{23} if indeed you still abide in the
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faith, having been strengthened and steadfast and not shifting from the hope
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of the good-news which you heard, the [one] having been proclaimed in all
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creation under heaven, of which I Paul became [a] servant.
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\VS{24} Now I rejoice in the sufferings in behalf [of you], and complete the
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deficiency of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body which is
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the assembly\fnEkklhsia{},
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\VS{25} of which I became [a] servant according to the administration of God,
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the [one] having been given to me for you to complete the word of God,
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\VS{26} the mystery having been concealed from eternity and from the generations --- but now it has been revealed to his holy [ones],
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\VS{27} to whom God wished to
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make known what [are] the riches of the glory of the mystery among the nations,
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which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
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\VS{28} which we ourselves
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proclaim admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, in
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order that we ourselves present every man complete in Christ,
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\VS{29} for
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which also I labor, struggling according to his working, the [one] working in you
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in power.
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