And you - which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your minds were set in evil works - hath he now reconciled

Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -

that mystery, hid since the world began, and since the beginning of generations: But now is opened to his saints,

I would ye knew what fighting I have for your sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my person in the flesh,

that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ:

Let no man therefore trouble your consciences about meat and drink: or for a piece of a holy day, as the holy day of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day:

Let no man make you shoot at a wrong mark, which after his own imagination walketh in the humbleness and holiness of angels, things which he never saw: causeless, puffed up with his fleshly mind,

which things have the similitude of wisdom in chosen holiness, and humbleness, and in that they spare not the body - and do the flesh no worship unto his need.

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

and the new put on; which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that made him:

Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering,

forasmuch as ye know that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons.

Ye masters do unto your servants that which is just and equal, seeing ye know that ye have also a master in heaven.

Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know how ye do, and might comfort your hearts,