Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:

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:

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:

And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

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.

Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus:

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:

He also having manifested to us your love in the Spirit.

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.

As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;

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

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude

Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.

To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful.

Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross

(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:

Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds;

In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

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.

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

For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:

And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments.

Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it.

Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.

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

And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.

In wisdom walk toward them without, purchasing the time.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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

For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:

Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.

In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.

That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

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

Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all.

For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power.

All things concerning me shall Tychicus make known to you, a dearly beloved brother, and a faithful servant and fellowservant in the Lord:

Whom I sent to you for this same, that he might know the things concerning you, and comfort your hearts;

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

With Onesimus, the faithful and dearly beloved brother, who is of you. They shall make known to you all the thing here.

And Jesus, called Justus, they being of the circumcision. These only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, which were a consolation to me.

And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons.

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

Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.

And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

Greet the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house.

And say to Archippus, Look out for the service which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fill it.

And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

The greeting of Paul by my hand. Remember my bonds. Grace with you. Amen.

Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

That I might manifest, as is fitting for me to speak.

(Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle;

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

We return thanks to God. and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;

If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.

Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.

For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:

In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy.

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

Luke, the dearly beloved physician, greets you, and Demas.

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

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy,

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