Colossians

问候

1奉 神旨意，作基督耶稣使徒的保罗和兄弟提摩太

2写信给歌罗西的圣徒，在基督里有忠心的弟兄。愿恩惠、平安从 神我们的父归与你们！

为信徒感谢 神

3我们感谢 神我们主耶稣基督的父，常常为你们祷告；

4因听见你们在基督耶稣里的信心，并向众圣徒的爱心，

5是为那给你们存在天上的盼望；这盼望就是你们从前在福音真理的道上所听见的。

6这福音传到你们那里，也传到普天之下，并且结果，增长，如同在你们中间，自从你们听见福音，真知道 神恩惠的日子一样。

7正如你们从我们所亲爱、一同作仆人的以巴弗所学的。他为我们作了基督忠心的执事，

8也把你们因圣灵所存的爱心告诉了我们。

基督的位格和工作

9因此，我们自从听见的日子，也就为你们不住地祷告祈求，愿你们在一切属灵的智慧悟性上，满心知道 神的旨意；

10好叫你们行事为人对得起主，凡事蒙他喜悦，在一切善事上结果子，渐渐地多知道 神；

11照他荣耀的权能，得以在各样的力上加力，好叫你们凡事欢欢喜喜地忍耐宽容；

12又感谢父，叫我们能与众圣徒在光明中同得基业。

13他救了我们脱离黑暗的权势，把我们迁到他爱子的国里；

14我们在爱子里得蒙救赎，罪过得以赦免。

15爱子是那不能看见之 神的像，是首生的，在一切被造的以先。

16因为万有都是靠他造的，无论是天上的，地上的；能看见的，不能看见的；或是有位的，主治的，执政的，掌权的；一概都是借着他造的，又是为他造的。

17他在万有之先；万有也靠他而立。

18他也是教会全体之首。他是元始，是从死里首先复生的，使他可以在凡事上居首位。

19因为父喜欢叫一切的丰盛在他里面居住。

20既然借着他在十字架上所流的血成就了和平，便借着他叫万有—无论是地上的、天上的—都与自己和好了。

21你们从前与 神隔绝，因着恶行，心里与他为敌。

22但如今他借着基督的肉身受死，叫你们与自己和好，都成了圣洁，没有瑕疵，无可责备，把你们引到自己面前。

23只要你们在所信的道上恒心，根基稳固，坚定不移，不至被引动失去福音的盼望。这福音就是你们所听过的，也是传与普天下万人听的，我—保罗也作了这福音的执事。

保罗为教会的工作

24现在我为你们受苦，倒觉欢乐；并且为基督的身体，就是为教会，要在我肉身上补满基督患难的缺欠。

25我照 神为你们所赐我的职分作了教会的执事，要把 神的道理传得全备，

26这道理就是历世历代所隐藏的奥秘；但如今向他的圣徒显明了。

27神愿意叫他们知道，这奥秘在外邦人中有何等丰盛的荣耀，就是基督在你们心里成了有荣耀的盼望。

28我们传扬他，是用诸般的智慧，劝戒各人，教导各人，要把各人在基督里完完全全地引到 神面前。

29我也为此劳苦，照着他在我里面运用的大能尽心竭力。

1Paul, an apostle of ChristJesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2to the saints and faithful brothersin Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

5because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

6which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

7even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on yourbehalf,

8who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

9For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

13who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

14in whom we have our redemption,the forgiveness of our sins.

15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

16For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

17He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

18He 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 preeminence.

19For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

20and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

21You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

24Now 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 assembly,

25of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

26the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

28We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.