10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work(A) and growing in the knowledge of God.(B) 11 May you be strengthened(C) with all power,(D) according to His glorious(E) might, for all endurance and patience, with joy 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[a] to share in the saints’[b] inheritance in the light.(F) 13 He has rescued(G) us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom(H) of the Son(I) He loves.(J) 14 We have redemption,[c] the forgiveness of sins, in Him.

The Centrality of Christ

15 He is the image of the invisible God,(K)
the firstborn over all creation.[d](L)

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:12 Other mss read us
  2. Colossians 1:12 Or holy ones’
  3. Colossians 1:14 Other mss add through His blood
  4. Colossians 1:15 The One who is preeminent over all creation

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