Book 12: The Letter of Shaul {Paul} to the Colossians
Chapter 1
SHA’UL, an emissary of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah by the will of Yah, and Timotiyos our brother,
2 To the Set-Apart Ones and emunahful brethren in the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah which are at Colosse: Chen be to you, and peace, from Yah our Father and Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
3 We give thanks to Yah and the Father of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, praying always for you,
4 Since we heard of your Emunah in The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua, and of the Chesed which you have to all the Set-Apart Ones,
5 For the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News;
6 Which is come to you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the Chen of Yah in truth:
7 As you also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a emunahful minister of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah;
8 Who also declared to us your Chesed in the Spirit.
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That you might walk worthy of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of Yah;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks to the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Set-Apart Ones in light:
13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible Yah, the firstborn of every creature:
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:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the assembly: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his Stake, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in Earth, or things in Heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you Set-Apart and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If you continue in the Emunah grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Good News, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under Heaven; whereof I Sha’ul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of Yah which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of Yah;
26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his Set-Apart Ones:
27 To whom Yah would make known what is the riches of the Kavod of this mystery among the Ha-goyim; which is the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah in you, the hope of Kavod:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.