英文经文和朗读链接：《歌罗西书书Colossians》第一章英文经文NIV链接； 《歌罗西书书Colossians》第一章dramatized NIV；现代译本和NIV中英文对照第一章；和合本和NIV中英文对照第一章； ESV 和NIV英文版本对照

基础级的词汇学习（NIV英文版）：

词汇学习：

• 名词：redemption（救赎），gospel（福音）

• 动词: strengthen（增强），proclaim（宣称），rejoice（欢喜），disclose（揭示）

• 形容词: worthy （值得的），glorious（光荣的）

• 副词：strenuously（艰苦地/费力地）

重点句子的学习：歌罗西书1：21-23

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 你们从前与上帝隔绝，行事邪恶，心思意念与祂为敌；

22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 但现在上帝借着基督肉身的死使你们与祂和好了，让你们在祂面前成为圣洁无瑕、无可指责的人。

23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.只是你们必须恒心持守所信的道，根基稳固，坚定不移，不要失去你们听到福音后所得到的盼望。这福音传给了天下万民。我保罗也做了这福音的使者。

基础较好的词汇学习（NIV英文版）：

词汇学习：

• 专有名词：Colossae（歌罗西），Epaphras（以巴弗）

• 名词：dominion（统治/主权），supremacy（至高/优越），blemish（缺陷），afflictions（苦难），

• 动词: shed（洒），alienate（疏远），admonish（告诫）

• 副词：strenuously（艰苦地/费力地）

重点句子的学习：歌罗西书1：9-14

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 因此，从听到你们的消息那天起，我们便不断地为你们祷告，求上帝使你们在一切属灵的智慧和悟性上完全明白祂的旨意，

10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 好叫你们行事为人对得起主，凡事蒙他喜悦，在一切善事上结果子，对上帝的认识不断增加。

11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 照他荣耀的权能，得以在各样的力上加力，好叫你们凡事欢欢喜喜地忍耐宽容。

12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 欢喜地感谢天父，因祂使你们有资格跟众圣徒在光明中同享基业。

13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 祂把我们从黑暗的权势下拯救出来，带进祂爱子的国度里。

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.我们借着祂的爱子蒙救赎，罪过得到赦免。

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