which has come to you, just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, even as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth;

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

yet he has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, in order to present you before him holy and blameless and beyond reproach

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a minister.

the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.

Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord forgave you, so you also must forgive.

For he who does wrong will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

and with him Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you everything that has taken place here.

I testify for him that he has worked hard for you and for those who are in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

When this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read the letter from Laodicea.