You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;

and it is he who has informed us of your love in the Spirit.

thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light,

Striving? Yes, I want you to understand my deep concern for you and for those at Laodicea, for all who have never seen my face.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden!

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.

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

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

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.

He is accompanied by that faithful and beloved brother Onesimus, who is one of yourselves. They will inform you of all that goes on here.

Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you; so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, about whom you have got instructions (if he comes to you, give him a welcome);

and so does Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only comrades in the work of God's realm, belonging to the circumcised, who have been any comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.