Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God. For I testify about him, that he has much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and TRUE witness, the primacy of the creation of God: