Colossians 1:25

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When I became a servant in this church, I experienced this suffering as a sheer gift, God’s way of helping me serve you, laying out the whole truth.

of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness—

I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.

of which I became a minister, according to God’s stewardship which was given to me for you, to complete the word of God,

Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

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