Thursday, November 25, 2021

A Fresh Translation of Colossians 1

     Paulos, Apostle of the Christ, Yeshua through the will of God, and Timotheos the brother to those holy and trusted brothers by means of the Christ in Kolossai, charity to you and peace from our Father, God.

     We thank the Father God of our Lord, Yeshua the Christ always, praying about you, having heard your trust in the Christ, Yeshua and the love which you folks have for all of the holy because of the hope which is laid up in store for you in the heavenly realms, which you heard about before with the message of the truth of the Gospel which is here for you, just like also within all the universe it is producing fruit for itself and growing itself just like also among you, from the day you heard and knew by seeing for yourselves the charity of God with the reality of it, just like you learned from Epaphras, our dear co-slave, who is a trusted servant of the Christ on our behalf, the one who also made clear to us your love by means of the Spirit.

     Because of this also we, from which day we heard, don’t pause praying and asking on your behalf, so that you would be filled full of the knowledge of His will which comes from seeing it for yourself with every wisdom and putting it together in the mind which come from the Spirit, to walk worthy of the Lord as far as every desire to please Him, with every good thing achieved you folks producing fruit and being grown by the knowledge which comes from experiencing God for yourself, being powered with every power in line with the force of His glory with the result of every endurance and keeping a long temper. With joy thanking the Father who is enough for you folks as far as the share of the inheritance of the holy in the light; Who rescued us from the authority of the darkness and transposed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, by means of Whom we have the purchase by ransom, the divorce from the malfunctioning behaviors, Who is the avatar of the unseen God, firstborn of all the creation, because with Him the everything has been created in the skies and on the ground, the visible things and the unseen, either thrones or ownerships or beginning ones or authorities; the everything was created through Him and for Him, and He exists before everything and the everything has been stood together by means of Him, and He is the head of the body of the Congregation; Who is the start, first born from the dead so that Himself being the first it would have happened among all, because He was pleased for the sum of everything to reside within Him and through Him to completely reconcile the everything away from the darkness into Himself, having brought peace through the blood of His cross, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavenly realms.

     And you folks, at one time existing separated and hostile by means of the notion within the deranged deeds, yet currently He completely reconciled you folks away from that with the body of His flesh through His death to offer you folks holy and unblemished and not liable to an accusation standing directly across from Him, if you at least continue by the faith of Yeshua having been grounded and seated and not changing position from the hope of the Gospel which you heard which was preached among every single creation which is under the sky, of which I, Paulos became a servant.

     Now I rejoice with the sufferings on your behalf and fill up completely what the crushings of the Christ failed to reach with my flesh on behalf of His body, which is the Congregation, of which I myself became a servant in line with the management of God which was given to me for the purpose of filling you with the message of God, the mystery hidden from the eons and from the generations—yet now was made visible to His holy ones, to whom God wished to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery is among the ethnic groups, which is the Christ within you, the hope of the glory; Whom we proclaim warning every single human being and teaching every single human being by means of every single bit of wisdom, so that we should cause every human being to stand finished by means of the Christ; for which thing I also wear myself out agonizing down the line of His energy which is energized within me with power.

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