Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;

Christian greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, especially to Nymphas, and to the Church that meets at their house.