You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message ??26 of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

This is the Christ we proclaim; we train everyone and teach everyone the full scope of this knowledge, in order to set everyone before God mature in Christ;

it is in him that you reach your full life, and he is the Head of every angelic Ruler and Power;

but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!

Tychicus, that beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, will give you all information about me.

Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you; so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, about whom you have got instructions (if he comes to you, give him a welcome);