Послание к Колоссянам 1
1 павел, апостол Иисус Христов волею Божиею, и тимофей брат,2 сущым в колоссаех святым и верным братиям о Христе Иисусе:3 благодать вам и мир от Бога Отца нашего, и Господа Иисуса Христа. Благодарим Бога и Отца Господа нашего Иисуса Христа, всегда о вас молящеся,4 слышавше веру вашу, яже о Христе Иисусе, и любовь, юже имате ко всем святым,5 за упование отложенное вам на небесех, еже прежде слышасте в словеси истины блговествования,6 сущаго в вас, якоже и во всем мире: и есть плодоносно и растимо, якоже и в вас, от негоже дне слышасте и разуместе благодать Божию во истине:7 якоже и уведесте от епафраса, возлюбленнаго соработника нашего, иже есть верен о вас служитель Христов,8 иже и яви нам вашу любовь в дусе.9 Сего ради и мы, от негоже дне слышахом, не престаем о вас молящеся и просяще, да исполнитеся в разуме воли его, во всяцей премудрости и разуме духовнем,10 яко ходити вам достоине Богу во всяцем угождении и всяком деле блазе, плодоносяще и возрастающе в разуме Божии,11 всякою силою возмогающе по державе славы его, во всяцем терпении и долготерпении с радостию.12 благодаряще Бога и Отца, призвавшаго вас в причастие наследия святых во свете.13 иже избави нас от власти темныя и престави в Царство Сына любве своея,14 о немже имамы избавление кровию его и оставление грехов.15 иже есть образ Бога невидимаго, перворожден всея твари.16 яко тем создана быша всяческая, яже на небеси и яже на земли, видимая и невидимая, аще престоли, аще господствия, аще начала, аще власти: всяческая тем и о нем создашася.17 и той есть прежде всех, и всяческая в нем состоятся.18 И той есть глава телу Церкве, иже есть начаток, перворожден из мертвых, яко да будет во всех той первенствуя.19 яко в нем благоизволи всему исполнению вселитися,20 и тем примирити всяческая к себе, умиротворив кровию креста его, чрез него, аще земная, аще ли небесная.21 И вас, иногда сущих отчужденных и врагов помышленьми в делех лукавых,22 ныне же примири в теле плоти его смертию его, представити вас стых и непорочных и неповинных пред собою,23 аще убо пребываете в вере основани и тверди, и неподвижими от упования блговествования, еже слышасте, проповеданное всей твари поднебесней, емуже бых аз павел служитель.24 Ныне радуюся во страданиих моих о вас, яко исполняю лишение скорбей Христовых во плоти моей за тело его, еже есть Церковь.25 ейже бых аз служитель по смотрению Божию, данному мне в вас, исполнити слово Божие,26 тайну сокровенную от век и от родов: ныне же явися святым его,27 имже восхоте Бог сказати, кое богатство славы тайны сея во языцех, иже есть Христос в вас, упование славы,28 егоже мы проповедуем, наказующе всякаго человека и учаще всяцей премудрости, да представим всякаго человека совершенна о Христе Иисусе:29 в немже и труждаюся и подвизаюся по действу его действуемому во мне силою.
Colossians 1
Salutation
1 From Paul,t an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2 to the saints, the faithfult brothers and sisterst in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to yout from God our Father!s
Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Church
3 We alwayst give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,4 sincet we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.5 Your faith and love have arisent from the hope laid upt for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospelt6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospelt is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growingt among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.7 You learned the gospelt from Epaphras, our dear fellow slavet – at faithful minister of Christ on ours behalf –
8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you,t have not ceased praying for you and asking Godt to fillt you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,10 so that you may livet worthily of the Lord and please him in all respectst – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display oft all patience and steadfastness, joyfully12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to sharet in the saints’t inheritance in the light.13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,t
14 in whom we have redemption,s the forgiveness of sins.
The Supremacy of Christ
15 s He is the image of the invisible God, the firstbornt over all creation,t
16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions,t whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.
17 He himself is before all things and all things are held togethert in him.
18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstbornt from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.t
19 For Godt was pleased to have all hist fullness dwellt in the Sont
20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him,s whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Paul’s Goal in Ministry
21 And you were at one time strangers and enemies in yourt mindst as expressed throught your evil deeds,22 but now he has reconciled youst by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –
23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm,t without shiftingt from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardshipt from God – given to me for you – in order to completet the word of God,26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.27 God wanted to make known to them the glorioust riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.28 We proclaim him by instructingt and teachingt all peoplet with all wisdom so that we may present every person maturet in Christ.
29 Toward this goalt I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfullyt works in me.