Colossians chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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;

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;

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.