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.

and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.

giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves.

But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him—

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.

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