Colossians 1:1-29

The Supremacy and All-Sufficiency of Christ

1-8. Salutation to the Colossian Christians, and thanksgiving for the news of their spiritual state.

Paraphrase. '(1, 2) Paul and Timothy salute the saints and believers in Colossæ. (3-5) We always thank God, when we pray for you, on account of your faith and the love you display in hope of the heavenly reward, of which you heard when the gospel was first proclaimed to you. (6-8) This gospel is the word of truth which approves itself by its universal diffusion and success, and has from the very first achieved a similar success among yourselves, taught you as it has been in its genuine reality by Epaphras, who has ministered to you in my place and has made known your love to me.'