By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

But so that you may have knowledge of my business, and how I am, Tychicus, the well-loved brother and tested servant in the Lord, will give you news of all things: