to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

Just as also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondman, who is a faithful helper of the Christ for you,

Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been made known to his sanctified.

Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.

and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God.

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?

And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men,

knowing that from Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

and Jesus who is called Justus, these being the only fellow workmen from the circumcision for the kingdom of God, men who became a comfort to me.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.