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Colossians 4:3

New Century Version

Also pray for us that God will give us an opportunity to tell people his message. Pray that we can preach the secret that God has made known about Christ. This is why I am in prison.

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When they arrived in Antioch, Paul and Barnabas gathered the church together. They told the church all about what God had done with them and how God had made it possible for those who were not Jewish to believe.

This message is the secret that was hidden from everyone since the beginning of time, but now it is made known to God’s holy people.

When I came to Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord gave me a good opportunity there.

and I am suffering because of it to the point of being bound with chains like a criminal. But God’s teaching is not in chains.

And I know that I am right to think like this about all of you, because I have you in my heart. All of you share in God’s grace with me while I am in prison and while I am defending and proving the truth of the Good News.

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. Therefore I urge you who have been chosen by God to live up to the life to which God called you.

because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.

People should think of us as servants of Christ, the ones God has trusted with his secrets.

Brothers and sisters, pray for us.

Jesus answered, “You have been chosen to know the secrets about the kingdom of heaven, but others cannot know these secrets.

One more thing—prepare a room for me in which to stay, because I hope God will answer your prayers and I will be able to come to you.

Because you are praying for me and the Spirit of Jesus Christ is helping me, I know this trouble will bring my freedom.

May the Lord show mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, who has often helped me and was not ashamed that I was in prison.

So I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

Glory to God who can make you strong in faith by the Good News that I tell people and by the message about Jesus Christ. The message about Christ is the secret that was hidden for long ages past but is now made known.

He let me know his secret by showing it to me. I have already written a little about this.

If you read what I wrote then, you can see that I truly understand the secret about the Christ.

And God gave me the work of telling all people about the plan for his secret, which has been hidden in him since the beginning of time. He is the One who created everything.

I, Paul, greet you and write this with my own hand. Remember me in prison. Grace be with you.

Preach the Good News. Be ready at all times, and tell people what they need to do. Tell them when they are wrong. Encourage them with great patience and careful teaching,




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