{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "colossians", "chapter": 1 }, "data": { "n": 1, "bookSlug": "colossians", "bookCode": "COL", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "COL-1:1", "verseRef": "COL.1.1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "COL-1:2", "verseRef": "COL.1.2", "text": "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ [that are] at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "COL-1:3", "verseRef": "COL.1.3", "text": "We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you," },{ "n": 4, "refId": "COL-1:4", "verseRef": "COL.1.4", "text": "having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints," },{ "n": 5, "refId": "COL-1:5", "verseRef": "COL.1.5", "text": "because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel," },{ "n": 6, "refId": "COL-1:6", "verseRef": "COL.1.6", "text": "which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "COL-1:7", "verseRef": "COL.1.7", "text": "even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf," },{ "n": 8, "refId": "COL-1:8", "verseRef": "COL.1.8", "text": "who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "COL-1:9", "verseRef": "COL.1.9", "text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding," },{ "n": 10, "refId": "COL-1:10", "verseRef": "COL.1.10", "text": "to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "COL-1:11", "verseRef": "COL.1.11", "text": "strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "COL-1:12", "verseRef": "COL.1.12", "text": "giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "COL-1:13", "verseRef": "COL.1.13", "text": "who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "COL-1:14", "verseRef": "COL.1.14", "text": "in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "COL-1:15", "verseRef": "COL.1.15", "text": "who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "COL-1:16", "verseRef": "COL.1.16", "text": "for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "COL-1:17", "verseRef": "COL.1.17", "text": "and he is before all things, and in him all things consist." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "COL-1:18", "verseRef": "COL.1.18", "text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "COL-1:19", "verseRef": "COL.1.19", "text": "For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "COL-1:20", "verseRef": "COL.1.20", "text": "and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "COL-1:21", "verseRef": "COL.1.21", "text": "And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works," },{ "n": 22, "refId": "COL-1:22", "verseRef": "COL.1.22", "text": "yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "COL-1:23", "verseRef": "COL.1.23", "text": "if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "COL-1:24", "verseRef": "COL.1.24", "text": "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body`s sake, which is the church;" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "COL-1:25", "verseRef": "COL.1.25", "text": "whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God," },{ "n": 26, "refId": "COL-1:26", "verseRef": "COL.1.26", "text": "[even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints," },{ "n": 27, "refId": "COL-1:27", "verseRef": "COL.1.27", "text": "to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "COL-1:28", "verseRef": "COL.1.28", "text": "whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "COL-1:29", "verseRef": "COL.1.29", "text": "whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/colossians/chapters/1", "book": "/v1/library/books/colossians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/colossians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }