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

and who made known to us your love in the Spirit.

giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light,

who delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

who is the likeness 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 might himself be preeminent in all things,

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

and you are made perfect in him, who is the head of all principality and power,

in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have also been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised him from the dead;

Tychicus will inform you of all things relating to me, who is a beloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord,

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he may know your affairs and comfort your hearts,

with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; they will tell you of all things here.

Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you, and Mark the nephew of Barnabas,??oncerning whom you received commandments, if he comes to you receive him,??11 and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision; these are the only co-laborers for the kingdom of God who have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.