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¶ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ, by y e will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

To the saints and faithfull brethren in Christ, which are at Colosse, grace be vnto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.

We giue thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, praying alwayes for you,

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Iesus, and of the loue which yee haue to all the Saints,

Which is come vnto you as it is in all the world, and bringeth foorth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day yee heard of it, and knew the grace of God in trueth,

For this cause wee also, since the day we heard it, doe not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding:

That ye might walke worthy of the Lord vnto all pleasing, being fruitfull in euery good worke, & increasing in the knowledge of God:

Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, vnto all patience and long suffering with ioyfulnesse:

Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,

1611 marginal noteGr. the Sonne of his loue.

For by him were all things created that are in heauen, and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.