For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.

For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell.

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

that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

And I say this that not anyone should beguile you with enticing words.

blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.

praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,

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

Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

I sent him to you for this very purpose, that he might know the things about you, and that he might comfort your hearts,

Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For I bear him record that he has a great zeal for you and for those who are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

And when this letter is read before you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter of Laodicea.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.