Your faith and love are based on what you hope for.
(Colossians 1:5, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The gospel keeps bringing blessings and is spreading throughout the world.
(Colossians 1:6, Good News Bible)
He rescued us from the power of darkness.
(Colossians 1:13, Good News Bible)
Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God. He is the first born Son, superior to all created things.
(Colossians 1:15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God wanted all of himself to be in his Son.
(Colossians 1:19, Living Bible)
Through the Son … God decided to bring the whole universe back to himself.
(Colossians 1:20, Good News Bible)
By means of the physical death of his Son, God has made you his friends, in order to bring you, holy and pure and innocent, into his presence.
(Colossians 1:22, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
By means of my physical sufferings I help complete what still remains of Christ’s sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.
(Colossians 1:24, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
This is God’s plan: to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.
(Colossians 1:27, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not let anyone fool you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be.
(Colossians 2:4, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be.
(Colossians 2:4)
Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life.
(Colossians 2:7, Contemporary English Version)
Be filled with thanksgiving.
(Colossians 2:7, Good News Bible)
See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by men.
(Colossians 2:8, Good News Bible)
The full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity.
(Colossians 2:9, Good News Bible)
God lives fully in Christ.
(Colossians 2:9, Contemporary English Version)
When you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the active power of God, who raised him from death.
(Colossians 2:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God has brought you to life with Christ.
(Colossians 2:13, Good News Bible)
God let Christ make you alive.
(Colossians 2:13, Contemporary English Version)
God let Christ make you alive.
(Colossians 2:13, Contemporary English Version)
Christ is real!
(Colossians 2:17, Contemporary English Version)
You have died with Christ and are set free form the ruing spirits of the universe.
(Colossians 2:20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Why be bothered with the rules that humans have made up?
(Colossians 2:22, Contemporary English Version)
Set your heart on what is in heaven.
(Colossians 3:1, Contemporary English Version)
You have been raised to life with Christ. Set your hearts, then, on the things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right side of God. Keep your minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth.
(Colossians 3:1-2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Your real life is Christ.
(Colossians 3:4, Good News Bible)
Christ gives meaning to your life.
(Colossians 3:4, Contemporary English Version)
Don’t be controlled by your body.
(Colossians 3:5, Contemporary English Version)
Greed is a form of idolatry
(Colossians 3:5 / Ephesians 5:5)
Don’t be greedy, which is the same as worshiping idols.
(Colossians 3:5, Contemporary English Version)
You must get rid of all these feelings: anger, passion, and hateful feelings.
(Colossians 3:8, Good News Bible)
You must quit being angry, hateful, and evil. You must no longer say insulting or cruel things about others.
(Colossians 3:8, Contemporary English Version)
Each of you is a new person.
(Colossians 3:10, Contemporary English Version)
You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right, and trying constantly to be more and more like Christ who created this new life within you. In this new life one’s nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant: such things mean nothing. Whether a person has Christ is what mattes and he is equally available to all.
(Colossians 3:10, Living Bible)
There is no longer any distinction between Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, and free men.
(Colossians 3:11, Good News Bible)
Be gentle, kind, humble, meek, and patient. Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you. Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together.
(Colossians 3:12-14, Contemporary English Version)
You are the people of God; he loved you and chose you for his own. So then you must clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
(Colossians 3:12)
You must forgive one another just as the Lord has forgiven you.
(Colossians 3:13, Good News Bible)
Clothe yourselves in love.
(Colossians 3:14, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
The peace that Christ gives is to guide you in the decisions you make.
(Colossians 3:15)
Let the peace that comes from Christ control your thoughts.
(Colossians 3:15, Contemporary English Version)
Christ’s message in all its richness must live in your hearts.
(Colossians 3:16, Good News Bible)
Whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus.
(Colossians 3:17, Living Bible)
Everything you do or say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus.
(Colossians 3:17, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Whatever you do, work with all your heart.
(Colossians 3:23, Good News Bible)
Christ is the real Master you serve.
(Colossians 3:24, Good News Bible)
God judges everyone by the same standard.
(Colossians 3:25, Good News Bible)
God treats everyone alike.
(Colossians 3:25, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Be persistent in prayer.
(Colossians 4:2, Good News Bible)
Make the most of your chances to tell others the Good News.
(Colossians 4:5, Living Bible)
Your speech should always be pleasant and interesting.
(Colossians 4:6, Good News Bible)