To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

And when this letter has been made public among you, let the same be done in the church of Laodicea; and see that you have the letter from Laodicea.