that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him --

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.

For I can testify that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.