People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
LABORING TO PERFECT THE CHURCH
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
OUR WONDROUS PRIVILEGES IN CHRIST
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
THE GOSPEL BEARING FRUIT
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
OUTLINE OF THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS
“Christ in You the Hope of Glory”
GOD’S PROVISION MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY EVERY NEED
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
EXHORTATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND PRAYER
Therefore, my fellow believers, whom I love and long for, my delight and crown [my wreath of victory], in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
STRAINING TOWARD THE GOAL
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST
Look out for the dogs [the Judaizers, the legalists], look out for the troublemakers, look out for the false circumcision .
HONORING CHRISTIAN MESSENGERS TIMOTHY AND EPAPHRODITUS
How was Timothy distinguished from Paul’s other helpers? What is said about Epaphroditus?
BRIGHT LIGHTS IN THE WORLD
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings