I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother:

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,

Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient,

Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,