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,

the man who also made clear to us your love in Spirit.

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.

For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

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.

Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.

in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them.

But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

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

And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

Praying simultaneously about us also, so that God may open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound,

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.