Colossians 1:1-6 RSV


Colossians 1:1-6 Paul, an apostle of Chrsit Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Co-los'-sae; Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have for all the saints,

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel

which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing--so among yourselves, for the day you heard and understood the grace of God in truth,

1 Corinthians 4:11-20 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless,

as we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.

I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant  people but their power.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

Galatians 1:3-5 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father;

to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.