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Colossians 1:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.

But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;

And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

Are they servants of Christ? I am talking foolishly I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.

And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.

For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle what I say is true, not false, and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.




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