For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell:

And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.

In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:

Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily.

And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:

Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.

And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;

When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.

And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:

And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Aristarchus my fellowcaptive greets you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (for whom ye received commands: if he come to you, receive him;)

For I bear testimony to him, that he has much zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.