of which ye heard before in the word of truth, Which is come to you, as also it is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it hath done likewise among you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet to partake of the inheritance of the saints in light.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

he hath now reconciled, By the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and spotless, and unreproveable in his sight:

The mystery which hath been hid from ages and generations; but now is manifested to his saints:

And you who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him,

Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

But he that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.

For I bear him witness, that he hath a great zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.