Who wrote the letter? Col. 1:1 _____________________________________________ Who made Paul an apostle? Col. 1:1 _________________________________________ Who was with Paul? Col. 1:1 ________________________________________________ To whom did Paul write? Col. 1:2 ___________________________________________ What do the saints receive from God? Col. 1:2 ______________________________ What are we to give God? Col. 1:3 __________________________________________ What did Paul and Timothy hear about the Colossians? Col. 1:4 ______________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Where does the faith and love stem from? Col. 1:5 __________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Where did they hear about the hope of heaven? Col. 1:5 _____________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Where has the gospel come? Col. 1:6 ________________________________________ What is the truth of the gospel Col. 1:6? __________________________________ What did the Colossians hear and know? Col. 1: 6 ___________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How is Epaphras described? Col. 1:7 ________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What is the source of the Colossians love? Col. 1:8 ________________________ What is the reason for Paul’s prayer in Col. 1: 9? Col. 1:4 ________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What does Paul request for the Colossian believers? Col. 1:9-11 ____________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How do we walk worthy of the Lord? Col. 1:10 _______________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Why did the believers need strength? Col. 1:11 _____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What does Paul also add to his requests? Col. 1:12 _________________________ What has God qualified us for? Col. 1:12 ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How has God qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance? Col. 1:13-14 ____________________________________________________________________________ What were we delivered from Col. 1:13 ______________________________________ What were we translated or brought into? Col. 1:13 _________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Note: The words "delivered" and "translated" are in the past tense indicating we have the assurance of something we will more fully experience in the future. In whom do we have redemption? Col. 1:13, 14 _______________________________ What does redemption bring to our lives? Col. 1:14 _________________________ Who is the image of the invisible God? Col. 1:13-15 ________________________ Note: In Col. 1:15 the term "firstborn" refers to a position in the family where He has the right to inherit His father’s possessions. By whom were all things created? Col. 1:13, 16 _____________________________ What was created by the Son? Col. 1:16 _____________________________________ How and why were all things created? Col. 1:16 _____________________________ How do all things consist? Col. 1:17 _______________________________________ Christ is the head of the ________________, which is the __________________. Col. 1:18, 24 What is the Son the firstborn from? Col. 1:18 ______________________________ What is the Son to have in all things? Col. 1:18 ___________________________ What dwells in the Son? Col. 1:19 __________________________________________ What is to be reconciled to Christ? Col. 1:20 ______________________________ How did Christ make peace? Col. 1:20 _______________________________________ What were we? Col. 1:21 ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How are we reconciled to God? Col. 1:21, 22 ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Christ’s death changes us from being enemies to what? Col. 1:21, 22 ________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What is characteristic of someone who truly is reconciled to God? Col. 1:23 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What was Paul a minister of? Col. 1:23 _____________________________________ What does Paul rejoice in? Col. 1:24 _______________________________________ Why did Paul become a minister or servant? Col. 1:25 _______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What makes the mystery a mystery? Col. 1:26 ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What are the riches of the glory of this mystery? Col. 1: 27 _______________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Paul preached about whom? Col. 1:27-28 _____________________________________ How was the preaching conducted? Col. 1:28 _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What is the purpose of preaching? Col. 1:28 ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Why does Paul labor? Col. 1:28, 29 _________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What was at work in Paul mightily? Col. 1:29 _______________________________