Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:

For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:

That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.

Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.

And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful.

And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.

Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

The greeting of Paul by my hand. Remember my bonds. Grace with you. Amen.