Colossians 1:26

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

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Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

I and the Father are one.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,