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The same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world and changing lives everywhere, just as it changed yours that very first day you heard it and understood about God’s great kindness to sinners.

Epaphras, our much-loved fellow worker, was the one who brought you this Good News. He is Jesus Christ’s faithful slave, here to help us in your place. And he is the one who has told us about the great love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.

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that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit(A) and growing throughout the whole world(B)—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. You learned it from Epaphras,(C) our dear fellow servant,[a] who is a faithful minister(D) of Christ on our[b] behalf, and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.(E)

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  1. Colossians 1:7 Or slave
  2. Colossians 1:7 Some manuscripts your