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The Epistle of Paul
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Colossians

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Introduction to Colossians:
Author: Paul the apostle with Timothy the brother (1:1).Time of Writing: Approximately A.D. 64, when the Epistle to Philemon was written (4:9; Philem. 10-12).Place of Writing: Rome, where Paul was imprisoned (4:3, 10, 18).Recipients: The saints in Colossae (1:2).

Subject of Colossians:
Christ—The All-inclusive One,
Having the First Place in All Things
as the Mystery and Embodiment of God,
as the Head and Constituent of the Church,
as the Allotted Portion, Life, Constituent,
and Hope of the Saints, and
as the Body of All Positive Things

Colossians

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I. |Introduction — 1:1-8

A. |The apostle's greeting — vv.|1-2
Col.|1:1|-||1|Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the |2a|will of God, and |b|Timothy the brother,
Col.|1:2|-|To the |1a|saints in Colossae and faithful brothers in Christ: |b|Grace to you and peace from God our |c|Father.
B. |The apostle's thanksgiving — vv.|3-8
Col.|1:3|-|We give thanks to God, the |1|Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always concerning you,
Col.|1:4|-|Because we have heard of your |1a|faith in Christ Jesus and the |1b|love which you have unto all the saints
Col.|1:5|-|Because of the |1a|hope |2|laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the |b|word of the |3|truth of the gospel,
Col.|1:6|-|Which has come to you, even as it is also in all the world, bearing fruit and growing, as also in you, since the day you heard and knew the |1a|grace of God in |2b|truth;
Col.|1:7|-|Even as you learned from |a|Epaphras, our beloved fellow slave, who is a faithful |1b|minister of Christ on your behalf,
Col.|1:8|-|Who also has made known to us your |a|love in the Spirit.

II. |The preeminent and all-inclusive One, the centrality and universality of God — 1:9-3:11

A. |The portion of the saints — 1:9-14
Col.|1:9|-|Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease |a|praying and asking on your behalf that you may be filled with the full knowledge of |1|His |b|will in all |2|spiritual |c|wisdom and understanding,
Col.|1:10|-|To |1|walk worthily of the Lord to please Him |2|in all things, |3|bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the full |4|knowledge of God,
Col.|1:11|-|Being |a|empowered with all |1|power, according to the |2b|might of His glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy,
Col.|1:12|-|Giving thanks to the Father, who has |1|qualified you for a share of the |2|allotted |a|portion of the saints in the |3b|light;
Col.|1:13|-|Who |1|delivered us out of the authority of |2a|darkness and transferred us into the |b|kingdom of the |3c|Son of His love,
Col.|1:14|-|In whom we have |1a|redemption, the |2b|forgiveness of sins;
B. |The image of God and the Firstborn both in creation and in resurrection — 1:15-23
Col.|1:15|-|Who is the |1a|image of the |b|invisible God, the |2c|Firstborn of all creation,
Col.|1:16|-|Because |1|in Him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether |2|thrones or |3a|lordships or rulers or authorities; all things have been created |4b|through Him and |5|unto Him.
Col.|1:17|-|And He is |1|before all things, and all things |2a|cohere in Him;
Col.|1:18|-|And He is the |a|Head of the |b|Body, the church; He is the |c|beginning, the |1d|Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things;
Col.|1:19|-|For in Him |1|all the |2a|fullness was pleased to dwell
Col.|1:20|-|And |1|through Him to |a|reconcile |2b|all things to |3|Himself, |4c|having made peace through the |d|blood of His cross—|1|through Him, whether the |e|things on the earth or the things in the |5|heavens.
Col.|1:21|-|And you, though once |a|alienated and |1b|enemies in your |2c|mind because of your evil works,
Col.|1:22|-||1|He now has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you |a|holy and without blemish and without reproach before |1|Him;
Col.|1:23|-|If indeed you continue in the |1|faith, |a|grounded and steadfast and not being moved away from the |2b|hope of the gospel, which you heard, which was proclaimed in |c|all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a |d|minister.
C. |The mystery of God's economy — 1:24-29
Col.|1:24|-|I now |a|rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and |1|fill up on my part that which is lacking of the |b|afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His |c|Body, which is the church;
Col.|1:25|-|Of |1|which I became a |2a|minister according to the |3b|stewardship of God, which was given to me for you, to |4|complete the |c|word of God,
Col.|1:26|-|The |1a|mystery which has been hidden |2|from the ages and from the generations but now has been manifested to His saints;
Col.|1:27|-|To whom God willed to make known what are the |1a|riches of the glory of this |b|mystery among the Gentiles, |2|which is |3c|Christ |4|in you, the |d|hope of |5e|glory,
Col.|1:28|-|Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man |1a|full-grown |2|in Christ;
Col.|1:29|-|For which also I labor, |1a|struggling according to His |b|operation which operates in me in |2|power.

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