which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of 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.

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—

that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints,

having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.

For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.

For I testify for him that he has a deep concern for you and for those who are in Laodicea and Hierapolis.