On this account we also, from the day we heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

endued with all power according to the might of his glory unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

and ye are made full in him, who is the head of all principality and power;

For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and those that are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.