In whom ye also trusted, after ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Wherefore I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints,

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me on your account.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

If indeed ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;