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

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments 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 are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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.