even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.

who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.

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.

And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;

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

For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And you are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and power,

in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,

buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.

and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.

among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these.

and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.

along with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all things here.

Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (regarding whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, receive him),

and greetings from Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.

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

Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house.