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The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

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,

For the hope which is layd vp for you in heauen, whereof ye heard before in the word of the trueth of the Gospel,

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,

As yee also learned of Epaphras our deare felow seruant, who is for you a faithfull Minister of Christ:

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:

And you that were sometimes alienated, and enemies in your minde by wicked workes, yet now hath hee reconciled,

1611 marginal noteOr, by your mind in wicked works.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy & vnblameable, and vnreprooueable in his sight,

Who now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,