For this cause we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

And He is the head of the body, which is the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.

in order to which I also labour, striving earnestly according to his energy which operates in me with power.

Take heed least any one make a prey of you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ:

And ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

being buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are raised together with Him, through faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

for I bear him witness, that he is very zealous for you, and for those in Laodicea, and Hierapolis.