when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.

Principalities and powers he disarmed, and openly displayed them as his trophies, when he triumphed over them in the cross.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them.

Be unwearied in prayer, and keep awake in it when giving thanks.

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.