To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse, grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

of which ye heard before in the word of truth, Which is come to you, as also it is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it hath done likewise among you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

For this cause from the day we heard it, we do not cease to pray also for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

who is the beginning, the first-begotten from the dead, that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.

If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and are not removed from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard, which is preached to every creature that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

The mystery which hath been hid from ages and generations; but now is manifested to his saints:

For though I am absent from you in the flesh, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to behold your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Buried with him in baptism, by which ye are also risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead.

And not holding the head, from which all the body being nourished and knit together, by the joints and ligaments, increaseth with the increase of God.

Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, receive ye ordinances,

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