which is present among you, even as it is in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it does in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

even as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for us a faithful minister of Christ,

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I am having for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

As, therefore, ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him;

having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding with thanksgiving.

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as if living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to decrees,

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

(bearing with one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as the Lord freely forgave you, so also do ye):

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it was fitting in the Lord.

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.