(since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)

and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit.

May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them.

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.