for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints

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

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity.

Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.