which is present among you, as it is also in all the world, and is producing fruit, even as it has been doing also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

and who also made known to us your love in spirit.

For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.

in whom you have been also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

having blotted out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us, which was opposed to us, he also took it out of the way, driving a nail through it by means of his cross;

When the Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them.

But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth.

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you:

praying at the same time also for us, that God may open for us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of the Christ, for which I am in bonds,

Jesus also, who is called Justus, salutes you: these are of the circumcision: and these only are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

And when this letter has been read among you, cause that it be read in the church of the Laodiceans also; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea;