Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

[We pray for you] to live a life deserving of the Lord, pleasing to Him in every way, producing fruit in every good deed and growing in the knowledge of God.

giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

yet Christ has now reconciled you [to God] in His physical body through death, in order to present you before the Father holy and blameless and beyond reproach—

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;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ??3 that divine mystery in which all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found.

And, as for you - who were, dead, by your offences and by the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath brought you to life together with him, - having in favour forgiven us all our offences,

Let no one then call you to account about food or drink, or a feastday, or a new moon, or sabbaths;

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

Whom I have sent unto you, to this very end, - that ye may get to know the things which concern us, and he may encourage you hearts:

Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.