We always thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you,

when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.

He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,

when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross.

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

Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;

Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.

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