which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;

the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to the image of him that has created him;

For he that does a wrong shall receive the wrong he has done, and there is no respect of persons.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he might know your state, and that he might encourage your hearts: