For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell:

Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus:

That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

That I might manifest, as is fitting for me to speak.

Whom I sent to you for this same, that he might know the things concerning you, and comfort your hearts;

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

For I bear testimony to him, that he has much zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

And say to Archippus, Look out for the service which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fill it.