Christ above all — the image of the invisible God, and enough all by Himself.
"Set your affection on things ______, not on things on the earth."
Paul never visited Colosse — the church was planted by Epaphras, a local who heard Paul in Ephesus and carried the gospel a hundred miles home.
Colossians 1 contains the New Testament's highest view of Christ: 'the image of the invisible God... by him all things consist.' Every heresy since has had to argue with this chapter.
Colossians and Ephesians are twin letters — written around the same time, carried by the same messenger, overlapping in dozens of phrases. Players who know one have a head start on the other.
The letter ends with a note to 'remember my bonds' — Paul signed off from prison, again, and still called the gospel 'the hope which is laid up for you in heaven.'