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We are writing to God’s holy people in the city of Colosse, who are faithful brothers and sistersa in Christ. May God our Father give you grace and peace.
which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.
This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.
которая пришла и к вам. Эта Весть распространяется и приносит плоды по всему миру, как и у вас с того дня, когда вы впервые услышали ее и познали истину о благодати Божьей.
So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Поэтому, с тех пор как мы о вас впервые услышали, мы постоянно о вас молимся и просим, чтобы Бог дал вам знание Его воли, мудрость и духовное понимание.
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.
We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,c
for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see — such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.
Через Него было сотворено все на небе и на земле, все видимое и невидимое: будь то престолы, господства, начальства или власти — все было сотворено через Него и для Него.
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Но сейчас Бог примирил вас с Собой через жертвенную смерть Христа, когда Тот был еще в Своем земном теле. Он поставит вас перед Собою как святых и непорочных, и не заслуживающих упрека,
But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
если вы будете стоять на твердом основании веры и не станете изменять надежде, которую вам дала услышанная вами Радостная Весть. Она была возвещена всему творению под небесами, и я, Павел, стал ее служителем.
Теперь я радуюсь в моих страданиях за вас. Я в своем теле восполняю ту меру страданий Христа, которая предназначена мне, ради Его тела, то есть ради Церкви.
For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.
Бог захотел открыть им, как велико и для язычников богатство славы этой тайны, которая заключается в том, что Христос живет в вас. Он — ваша надежда на будущую славу.
So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfectg in their relationship to Christ.