And although you were at one time estranged and alienated and hostile-minded [toward Him], participating in evil things,

for tho' I am absent in person, yet I am present with you in my mind, and am glad to perceive the regularily of your affairs, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the heavenly agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

The which things, indeed, though they have, an appearance, of wisdom, in self-devised religious observance, and lowliness of mind, and ill-treatment of body, are, in no honourable way, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

Put on, therefore, as men chosen of God, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, graciousness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

Devote yourselves to prayer. Give your whole mind to it, and also offer thanksgiving;

I bear him record that he hath a fervent mind toward you, and toward them of Laodicea and them of Hierapolis.

I, Paul, add this farewell in my own handwriting. Do not forget these chains of mine. Grace be with you.