1 Paul, ambassador of Christ Yahshua by will of Yahweh, and Timotheos the brother,2 to those in Kolossaia, holy and faithful brethren among the number of the Anointed: favor to you and peace from Yahweh our Father and Prince Yahshua Christ.3 We are grateful to Yahweh, the Father of our Prince Yahshua Christ, at all times praying for you,4 hearing of your faith in Christ Yahshua and that love which you have for all the saints,5 by which you are storing up expectation for yourselves in the heavens, which you heard beforehand in the Word of the truth of the good message6 which is coming to you, and just as among all the Society it is bearing fruit and growing, likewise also among you from that day in which you heard and acknowledged the favor of Yahweh in truth,7 just as you have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondman, who is a trusted servant of the Anointed on our behalf,8 who also disclosed to us your love in Spirit.9 For this reason we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease from praying and requesting on your behalf that you would be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,10 to walk worthily of the Prince in all complaisance, in every good deed bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of Yahweh,11 with all power being strengthened according to the might of His honor for all endurance and long-suffering with joy,12 being thankful to the Father, who qualifies us for that share of the inheritance of the saints in the light,13 who has rescued us from the authority of darkness, and instead gave us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,14 in whom we have redemption: the dismissal of errors.15 Who is the likeness of the invisible God, first born of all the creation.16 Because by Him all things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, those visible and those invisible, whether thrones or dominions or realms or authorities, all things are created by Him and for Him;17 and He is before all, and all things by Him endure;18 and He is the head of the body: the assembly. He who is the beginning, first born from among the dead, that in all things He would be holding the first place.19 Because with Himself He was pleased to have the whole complement dwell,20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross, whether the things upon the earth, or the things in the heavens.21 And you at one time being alienated and odious in thought by wicked deeds,22 yet now He has reconciled with the body of His flesh through that death, to present you holy and blameless and void of offense before Him,23 if indeed you continue in the faith, founded and steadfast, and not shifting away from the expectation of the good message which you have heard, of which is being proclaimed among all the creation which is under heaven, of which I, Paul, have become a servant.24 Now, I rejoice in these sufferings on your behalf, and I substitute for those deficiencies of the afflictions of the Anointed with my flesh on behalf of the body itself, which is the assembly;25 of which I have become a servant in accordance with the administration of the household of Yahweh which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of Yahweh,26 the mystery which has been concealed from the ages and from the races, but now has been made visible to His saints,27 to whom Yahweh did wish to make known what the riches of the honor of this mystery are among the Nations, which is the expectation of honor anointed in you,28 whom we declare, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man perfect among the Anointed.29 For which I also labor, striving in accordance with that same energy which is operating within me with power.