Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

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.

And I say this so that not any man may delude you with persuasive speech.

Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,

Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the heavenly agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God.

Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch

Which having, are indeed a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and self-mortification, and austerity of the body--not in any value against indulgence of the flesh.

Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.

Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,

Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

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,