BIBLIA POLYGLOTTA, Epistola ad Colossenses, I. II VERSIO ANGLICANA. TEXTUS GRiECUS. riAYAOY TOY AIIOSTOAUY The Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the COLOSSIANS. him® should all fulness dwell; 20 And, /Shaving made6 peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be thiugs iu earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated, and enemies ׳yin your mind ¿by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to presents 3־ou holy and un-blameable and unreproveable in Ins sight: 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 ; 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictionsr of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church; 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; 26 Even the mystery* which hath been hid from ages and from genera tions, but now y is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ rjin you, the* hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning/ every man, and teaching* every man in all wisdom; that* we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto״* I also labour, striving according to his working, which woi ketii in me mightily. -ri CHAP. II. JL OR I would that ye knew׳ what great k conflict 1 have for you, and for them at Laodicea/7 and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh ; 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love,* and unto all riches of the full* assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery״ of God, and of the rather, and of Christ; 3 Ain whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile y you with enticing words. 5 lor though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk6 ye iu him: A. D. 64. a Jn°. 1.16. b Kp. 1.1. 3 or ,making■, c Kp.2.14.16. d Ps. 16. 3. e Ga.1.3. y or, by. S or, in. f Kp. 1.15.16. g Jude 24. h 2 Ti. 4. 3. 1 Pe. 1.4. i He. 10.33. k ver. 23. I Jn'.lo. 16. »/!Mat. 24.14. Mar. 16.15. n Ito. 10.17• o Tit.2.11,12. p Jn4.23 .׳. q Philem.23. r Phi. 3. 10. s Ito. 15.30. !: or, fully to preach, t Kp. 3. 9. u Ilo. 12. 2. Kp. 5.10,17• «׳Ts. 119.99. x Un5.20 .״. y 2 Ti. 1.10. z Phi. 1. 27. a 1 Th. 4.1. b Jn°. 15 ¿i,16. c 2 Pe. 3.13. d Is. 45.24. /Ac.20.23,31. g Ja. 1.4. A 2Ti.2.24,25. i Ito. 5.3. k 2 Co. 11.2. I Re. 22. 14. m 1 Co.15.10. n Ac. 20. 32. o 1 Pe. 2.9. e the Son of his love. k or, fear ; or, care, p Kp. 1.7. q Re3.14,&c. r He. 1.3. g ch.3.14. t Is.32. 17. He. 6. 11. !w Jn". 1.3. v 1 Jn ’.5. 7• Xor, wherein. wRo. 11.36. x Jn". 1. 1. y Mar. 13.22. *Kp.5. 23. a lCo.15.20. fj. amoJig all. b 1 Jn 6 .2 .־. 144 ־T) CllAP. 1. Jl AUL,6 an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2 To the saints d and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse :* Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We/ give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith iu Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints; 5 For the hope which is laid up * for you in heaven, whereof 3Te heard before m the word of the truth of the gospel ; 6 Which is come unto 3־ou, as it is m all* the world; and bringeth * forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the da3׳ ye heard” of it, and knew the" grace of God in truth :P 7 As ye also learned of? Epaphras our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; 8 Who also declared unto us 3’Our love* in the Spirit. 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for 3rou, and to desire that 3׳e might be tilled with the knowledge of his will,“ in all wisdom'״ and spiritual understanding;* 10 That ye might walk worthy* of the Lord unto all pleasing,® being* fruitful in every good work, and increasing6 in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthenedd with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patiences and long-suflering with joy-fulness;*" 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet* to be partakers of the inheritance” of the saints in light: 13 ״Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,״ and hath translated us into the kingdom of 6#his dear Son ; 14 Inf ־whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins; 15 Who is the imager of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature : 16 For by him“ were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in eaith, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by1״ him, and for him : 17 And he is before* all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head* of the body, the church : who is the beginning,® the first-born from the dead; that/uin all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in K0A022AEI2 EIIISTOAH. 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