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

Be careful that you do not let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements 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,

which all perish with the using of them, and are after the commandments, and doctrines of men:

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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.