to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ that are in Colosse: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

as you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you,

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

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;

if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

of which I was made a minister according to the commission from God, which was given to me for you, that I might fully preach the word of God,

the mystery which was concealed from the ages and the generations, but is now made manifest to his saints,

when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances?

But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth.

And whatever you do, do from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.

And when this letter has been read among you, cause that it be read in the church of the Laodiceans also; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea;