which is present among you, as it is also in all the world, and is producing fruit, even as it has been doing also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light:

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

And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled

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.

And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses;

Let no one gain his purpose in depriving you of the palm by an affected humility and worship of angels, prying into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done; and there is no respect of persons.

For I testify for him, that he has a great zeal for you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

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;