diff --git a/52-COL/01.usfm b/52-COL/01.usfm index 4732b7c6..f0aed210 100644 --- a/52-COL/01.usfm +++ b/52-COL/01.usfm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ \s5 \c 1 \p -\v 1 I, Paul, write this to the dear fellow believers in the city of Colossae. This is from Paul, whom God chose to send to you as an apostle of Christ Jesus, and this letter is also from Timothy, our fellow believer joined to Christ. We are sending this letter to all of you. +\v 1 I, Paul, write this to the dear fellow believers in the city of Colossae. This is from Paul, whom God chose to send to you as an apostle of Christ Jesus, and this letter is also from Timothy, our fellow believer joined to Christ. We are sending this letter to all of you. \v 2 We send this letter to those God has set apart for himself—those who are faithful believers who belong to Christ. We pray that God our Father will give you his kindness and peace. \p \v 3 We often thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, while we are praying for you, @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \s5 \v 4 because we have heard that you trust in Christ Jesus and that you love all those whom God has set apart for himself. \v 5 You love our fellow believers because you confidently are waiting for the things God is reserving for you in heaven. You first heard about these things when you heard the true message, the good news about Christ. -\v 6 Believers are proclaiming this good news that you heard in Colossae to everyone in the world. It is just as it has worked in you also, from the first day you heard it and understood how truly kind God is. The good news is like a field planted with crops that are growing and will give much a very large harvest. +\v 6 Believers are proclaiming this good news that you heard in Colossae to everyone in the world. It is just as it has worked in you also, from the first day you heard it and understood how truly kind God is. The good news is like a field planted with crops that are growing and will give much a very large harvest. \s5 \v 7 Epaphras taught you the good news. We love him because he serves Christ together with us and works for Christ faithfully in our place. @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 9 Since the time we heard about how you love, we have always been praying for you. We ask God to show you everything he wants you to do, and to make you wise so that you will understand what God's Spirit is teaching you. -\v 10 We pray that you will live in a way that others will honor the Lord for, so that he will approve of you. We pray that you will do every good thing that he tells you to do. +\v 10 We pray that you will live in a way that others will honor the Lord for, so that he will approve of you. We pray that you will do every good thing that he tells you to do. \s5 \v 11 We pray that God will strengthen you with all his mighty power, so that you will patiently endure every difficulty. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ \v 17 The Son himself existed before anything else, and he holds everything together. \s5 -\v 18 He rules all believers--the church--like a person's head rules his body. He rules over the church because he started it. He was the first person to come back to life with a perfect body. So he is greater than every thing. +\v 18 He rules all believers--the church--like a person's head rules his body. He rules over the church because he started it. He was the first person to come back to life with a perfect body. So he is greater than every thing. \v 19 God the Father was pleased to make everything he is to live in Christ. \v 20 It also pleased God to bring everything back to himself in peace through Jesus. God offered peace to all people and all things everywhere on earth and in heaven. He did this by causing the Son to die on the cross as a sacrifice, shedding his blood as he died. @@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ \p \v 21 Before you believed in Christ, God considered you his enemies, and you were unfriendly to God because you thought evil thoughts and because you did evil deeds. \v 22 But now God has offered peace between yourselves and himself and has made you his friends. He did this when Jesus gave up his body and life for us by dying. This made it possible for us to belong to God; he finds nothing wrong in us now, nothing to blame us for. -\v 23 But you must continue to trust Christ completely; then you will be like a house that they built on solid rock. Do not for any reason stop believing in what God has promised to do for you in the good news that people all over the world have heard. This is the same good news that I, Paul, am serving God by proclaiming to people. +\v 23 But you must continue to trust Christ completely; then you will be like a house that they built on solid rock. Do not for any reason stop believing in what God has promised to do for you in the good news that people all over the world have heard. This is the same good news that I, Paul, am serving God by proclaiming to people. \s5 \p -\v 24 Now I rejoice that I am suffering for your benefit. Yes, in order to help the church, which is like Christ's body, I suffer things that must still happen. +\v 24 Now I rejoice that I am suffering for your benefit. Yes, in order to help the church, which is like Christ's body, I suffer things that must still happen. \v 25 God made me his servant and gave to me special work to do, which is to proclaim the full message of God to non-Jewish people like you. \v 26 From ancient times, for generations, God did not tell this good news, but now he has revealed this mystery to those whom he has set apart for himself. \v 27 It is to these people--Jews and non-Jews like yourselves just as much--that God planned to tell this wonderful secret. It is this: Christ will live in you and make you confidently expect to share in God's glory! diff --git a/52-COL/02.usfm b/52-COL/02.usfm index 25ef1699..b7a34915 100644 --- a/52-COL/02.usfm +++ b/52-COL/02.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 8 Do not believe anyone who says that you must obey what people have taught about how to honor God or that you must obey what they worship in this world. Instead, obey Christ, +\v 8 Do not believe anyone who says that you must obey what people have taught about how to honor God or that you must obey what they worship in this world. Instead, obey Christ, \v 9 because the man Jesus Christ is fully God. \s5 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 16 So disregard anyone who says that God will punish you because you eat certain foods and drink certain drinks or because you do not celebrate special yearly festivals or when the new moon appears or weekly Sabbaths. -\v 17 These kinds of rules and events only picture what is truly coming. What is truly coming is Christ himself. +\v 17 These kinds of rules and events only picture what is truly coming. What is truly coming is Christ himself. \s5 \v 18 Do not let people prevent God from saving you by convincing you to believe what they say and that you must behave very humbly and worship angels. These people are always talking about visions they say God has made them see. They boast about these things because they think like people everywhere think who do not honor God. diff --git a/52-COL/03.usfm b/52-COL/03.usfm index c60170fc..58a79f69 100644 --- a/52-COL/03.usfm +++ b/52-COL/03.usfm @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 18 Wives, obey your husbands; this is right and according to what the Lord Jesus has commanded. +\v 18 Wives, obey your husbands; this is right and according to what the Lord Jesus has commanded. \v 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. \p \v 20 Children, obey your parents in every way, because the Lord God is pleased when you do that.