After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

Let no man make you shoot at a wrong mark, which after his own imagination walketh in the humbleness and holiness of angels, things which he never saw: causeless, puffed up with his fleshly mind,

(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

and have put on the new [spiritual] self who is being continually renewed in true knowledge in the image of Him who created the new self—

Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

And after you have read this letter, have it read to the church of Laodicea. In turn, read the letter from Laodicea as well.