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and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
always for you,
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Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
which ye have
to all
the saints,
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For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word
of the truth of the gospel;
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Which is come unto you, as
it is
in all the world; and bringeth forth
fruit, as
it doth
also in you, since the day ye heard
of it,
and knew the grace of God in truth:
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As
ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
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Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
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For this cause we also, since the day we heard
it,
do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will
in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
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That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
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Strengthened
with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light:
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Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
us
into
the kingdom of his dear Son:
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In whomwe have redemption through his blood,
even
the forgiveness
of sins:
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Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
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For by him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
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And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
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And he is the head of the body, the
church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things
he might have the
preeminence.
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For it pleased
the Father
that in him should all fulness dwell;
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And, having made
peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him,
I say,
whether
they be
things in earth, or things in heaven.
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And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in
your
mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
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In the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
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If ye continue
in the faith grounded and settled, and
be
not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye
have heard,
and
which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am
made a minister;
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Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of
the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
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Whereof I am made
a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of
God;
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Even
the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made
manifest to his saints:
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To whom God would make known what
is
the riches of the glory of this
mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
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Whom we preach, warning
every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ
Jesus:
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Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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