being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

Just as also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondman, who is a faithful helper of the Christ for you,

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.

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness.

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,

Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.

Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men,

so that I may make it known as I ought to speak.