and to enlighten everyone about God's secret plan -- a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

But you did not learn about Christ like this,

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances, how I am doing.