New American Standard Bible 2020

Colossians 1:9-20

9For this reason we also, 1since the day we heard about it, 2have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the 3 4knowledge of His will in all spiritual 5wisdom and understanding, 10so that you will 6walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, 7 8to please Him in all respects, 9bearing fruit in every good work and 10increasing in the 11knowledge of God; 11 12strengthened with all power, according to 13His glorious might, 14for the attaining of all perseverance and 15patience; 16joyously 12giving thanks to 17the Father, who has qualified us 18to share in 19the inheritance of the 20saints in 21light. 13 22For He rescued us from the 23 24domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of 25 26His beloved Son, 14 27in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

15 28He is the 29image of the 30invisible God, the 31firstborn of all creation: 16for 32 33by Him all things were created, 34both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether 35thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities--36all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17He 37 38is before all things, and in Him all things 39hold together. 18He is also the 40head of 41the body, the church; and He is 42the beginning, 43the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19For 44it was 45the Father’s good pleasure for all 46the 47fullness to dwell in Him, 20and through Him to 48reconcile all things to Himself, 49whether things on earth or things in 50heaven, having made 51peace through 52the blood of His cross.

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Notes

1. Colossians 1:9 Col 1:4 ↩
2. Colossians 1:9 Eph 1:16 ↩
3. Colossians 1:9 Or real knowledge ↩
4. Colossians 1:9 Phil 1:9 ↩
5. Colossians 1:9 Eph 1:17 ↩
6. Colossians 1:10 Eph 4:1 ↩
7. Colossians 1:10 Lit unto all pleasing ↩
8. Colossians 1:10 Eph 5:10 ↩
9. Colossians 1:10 Rom 1:13 ↩
10. Colossians 1:10 Or growing by the knowledge ↩
11. Colossians 1:10 Or real knowledge ↩
12. Colossians 1:11 1 Cor 16:13 ↩
13. Colossians 1:11 Lit the might of His glory ↩
14. Colossians 1:11 Lit unto all ↩
15. Colossians 1:11 Or patience with joy ↩
16. Colossians 1:11 Eph 4:2 ↩
17. Colossians 1:12 Eph 2:18 ↩
18. Colossians 1:12 Lit unto the portion of ↩
19. Colossians 1:12 Acts 20:32 ↩
20. Colossians 1:12 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people ↩
21. Colossians 1:12 Acts 26:18 ↩
22. Colossians 1:13 Lit Who rescued ↩
23. Colossians 1:13 Lit authority ↩
24. Colossians 1:13 Eph 6:12 ↩
25. Colossians 1:13 Lit the Son of His love ↩
26. Colossians 1:13 Eph 1:6 ↩
27. Colossians 1:14 Rom 3:24 ↩
28. Colossians 1:15 Lit Who is ↩
29. Colossians 1:15 2 Cor 4:4 ↩
30. Colossians 1:15 John 1:1 ↩
31. Colossians 1:15 Rom 8:29 ↩
32. Colossians 1:16 Or in ↩
33. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:10 ↩
34. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:10 ↩
35. Colossians 1:16 Eph 1:20f; Col 2:15 ↩
36. Colossians 1:16 John 1:3; Rom 11:36; 1 Cor 8:6 ↩
37. Colossians 1:17 Or has existed prior to ↩
38. Colossians 1:17 John 1:1; 8:58 ↩
39. Colossians 1:17 Or endure ↩
40. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:22 ↩
41. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:23; Col 1:24; 2:19 ↩
42. Colossians 1:18 Rev 3:14 ↩
43. Colossians 1:18 Acts 26:23 ↩
44. Colossians 1:19 Or all the fullness was pleased to dwell ↩
45. Colossians 1:19 Eph 1:5 ↩
46. Colossians 1:19 John 1:16 ↩
47. Colossians 1:19 I.e., fullness of deity ↩
48. Colossians 1:20 2 Cor 5:18; Eph 2:16 ↩
49. Colossians 1:20 Col 1:16 ↩
50. Colossians 1:20 Lit the heavens ↩
51. Colossians 1:20 Rom 5:1; Eph 2:14 ↩
52. Colossians 1:20 Eph 2:13 ↩

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