that has come to you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day you heard about and understood the grace of God in truth,

just as you learned [it] from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave who is a faithful minister of Christ [on] our behalf,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him,

firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?

Therefore, as [the] chosen of God, holy and [dearly] loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,

putting up with one another and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as also the Lord forgave you, thus also you [do the same].

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Whatever you do, accomplish [it] from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people,

so that I may reveal it, as it is necessary for me to speak.

Luke the physician, our dear friend, greets you, [as does] Demas.