Col 1:1. I am an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God.

Col 1:2. I am a saint and a faithful brother in Christ. I receive grace and peace from God my Father and from my Lord Jesus Christ.

Col 1:3. Jesus Christ is my Lord, Friend and Brother, and God is our God and Father. Therefore I give thanks to the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, Who is also my God and Father.

Col 1:4. I declare that I am filled with faith in Christ Jesus and I am filled with love for all the saints.

Col 1:5. There is a hope that is laid up for me in heaven, of which I heard before in the Word of the Truth of the Gospel.

Col 1:6. The Word of the Truth of the Gospel has come to me and it keeps bringing forth fruit in me and in all the world; it has been in me since the day I heard and knew the grace of God in Truth. I have heard and I know the grace of God in truth, therefore the Word of the Truth of the Gospel which has come to me keeps bringing forth fruit in me and in all the world.

Col 1:7. I am a faithful minister of Christ on behalf of the Church, which is the Body of Christ.

Col 1:8. I am filled with love in the Spirit and I declare and exemplify this love to others.

Col 1:9. Father, I pray and I ask that You will cause me to be filled with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Col 1:10. I ask that You will help me to walk worthy of You Lord, fully pleasing You, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in Your knowledge, o God.

Col 1:11. Lord I ask that you will strengthen me with all might, according to Your glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.

Col 1:12. I give thanks to You Father, for You have qualified me to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Col 1:13. Father, You have delivered me from the power of darkness and You have translated me into the Kingdom of the Son of Your love.

Col 1:14. In Christ Jesus, the Son of Your love, I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Col 1:15. Christ is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn over all creation, and I am likewise made in the image of the invisible God (Gen. 1:26), God delights in me, for I am part of His creation (   ) and I am the work of His hand. I am also one with Christ (  ).

Col 1:16. By Christ, all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. Therefore, I was created by Christ, through Christ and for Christ. And according as it is written, I declare that I am one with Christ and all things are for my sake, including all principalities, powers, angels, all things, and indeed all of God’s creation, seen and unseen… All are for my sake.

Col 1:17. Christ is before all things, and in Him all things consist. I consist and I belong in Christ.

Col 1:18. Christ is the Head of the body, the Church, therefore Christ is my Head. He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, and in all things He has pre-eminence; Christ is my Beginning, He is my Source, with Him I died and with Him, I have been raised from the dead and He has the pre-eminence in my life and affairs for I am a member of His Body and He is my Head.

Col 1:19. It pleased the Father that in Christ all the fullness should dwell, and because Christ is in me and I am in Him, and because I am one together with Christ (   ), therefore, all the fullness of God dwells in me and I receive all the fullness of God (Eph 3:19).

Col 1:20. By Christ, God has reconciled all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross; therefore by Christ I am reconciled to God, because Christ has made peace with God on my behalf through the blood of His cross.

Col 1:21. And I, who once was alienated and an enemy in my mind by wicked works, yet now Christ has reconciled

Col 1:22. in the body of His flesh through death, to present me holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight. Therefore, I declare that I am holy, blameless and above reproach in God’s sight.

Col 1:23. This is because I continue in the faith, I remain grounded and steadfast, and I am not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which I heard, which was preached to me, as well as to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Emmanuel, have become a minister.

Col 1:24. I rejoice in whatever suffering I am accounted worthy of, for the body of Christ, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the Church.

Col 1:25. I have become a minister of the Church according to the stewardship from God which is given to me for the Body of Christ, to fulfil the Word of God.

Col 1:26. The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, is now revealed to me, God’s saint.

Col 1:27. To me God wills to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in me, the Hope of glory.

Col 1:28. I preach Christ, warning myself and every man and teaching myself and every man in all wisdom, that I may present myself and every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Col 1:29. To this end I also labour, striving according to Christ’s working which works in me mightily.