1 Paul wrote this letter. Paul is a helper sent by Jesus, because God said so. Tim is with Paul. ✍️ 2 To God’s people in Colossae: Hi, friends! God our Father gives all of you kind love and peace. ️ 3 We thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for all of you. ❤️ 4 We heard you trust Christ Jesus. You love all God’s people. 5 You love and trust because you have hope in heaven. You heard the good news, and it is true. ☁️ 6 The good news came to you. It grows in the whole world. It grows in you too, since the day you heard it and knew God’s kind love is true. 7 Epaphras taught you. He is our dear friend and a good helper for Christ. 8 He told us you have love by God’s Holy Spirit. ️ 9 Since we heard, we keep praying for all of you. We ask God to help you know what He wants. We ask for good thinking from God’s Holy Spirit. ️ 10 Then you will live to make God happy. You will do good. You will know God more and more. ♀️ 11 God will make you strong. You will keep going. You will wait with joy. ⏳ 12 Say thank you to the Father. He lets all of you share in His light with His holy family. ✨ 13 God saved us from dark. He moved us into the home of His Son we love. ➡️ 14 In Jesus, we are set free. God forgives our sins. ❤️✝️ 15 Jesus shows us God we cannot see. He is first over all. ✨1️⃣ 16 By Jesus, God made all things, in the sky and on earth. Things we see and things we do not see. All things were made by Him and for Him. ️ 17 Jesus was before all. He holds all things together. ⏳ 18 Jesus is the head of His people. We are like a body. He rose first from death. He is number one in all. ♂️⛪1️⃣ 19 All of God was in Jesus. 20 Through Jesus, God made all things friends with Him. Jesus made peace by His blood on the cross. ✝️️❤️ 21 You were far from God. You did bad things. 22 Now Jesus made you God’s friend by His body and death. He will make you holy and clean. ✝️ 23 So keep trusting Jesus. Stand strong. Do not let go of hope in the good news. This good news goes to the whole world. I, Paul, tell it. ♀️ 24 I am glad even when I hurt, for you. I share in Jesus’ pain for His people. ➕ 25 God gave me a job to serve His people. I must tell all of God’s word. ️ 26 This was God’s secret long ago. Now God shows it to His people. ⏳ 27 God lets His people know the big gift. The secret is this: Christ is in you. He gives bright hope. ✨ 28 We tell about Jesus. We warn and teach all people with good thinking, so all can grow up strong in Christ. ️ 29 I work hard. I use His power that works in me. ️