which is come unto you, as it is also unto all the world; and beareth fruit, as also among you, from the day that ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

For this cause we also from the day we heard it have not ceased praying for you, and beseeching God that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

that ye may walk worthy of the Lord, well pleasing him in all things, in every good work fruitful, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent.

For it hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell;

whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:

and hath blotted out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was the obstacle to us, and took it from the midst, nailing it to the cross;

and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

And in every thing that ye do, labour from the soul, as for the Lord, and not man;

knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ.

But he that is guilty of injustice shall receive punishment for the wrong he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

MASTERS, afford to your servants that which is just, and an equivalent, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

praying also at the same time for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, that I may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains:

that I may make it evident, as I ought to speak.

Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that he might know your affairs, and comfort your hearts;

with Onesimus, that faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you: they will make known unto you all things that have passed here.

Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For I bear him witness that he hath great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

Salute the brethren that are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is at his house.

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it also be read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received from the Lord, that thou fulfil it.