For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

and say to Archippus, 'See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'