And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be in all things preeminent;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house.

And when the letter hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the letter from Laodicea.