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;

Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;

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 you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

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,

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.

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

For I give witness of him that he has undergone much trouble for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.

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.

Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.