As ye likewise learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you:

Who also declared to us your love in the spirit.

Giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet to partake of the inheritance of the saints in light.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the first begotten of every creature.

who is the beginning, the first-begotten from the dead, that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.

To whom among the Gentiles it was the will of God to make known, what is the riches of this glorious mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, that we may present every man perfect through Christ Jesus.

For which also I labour, striving according to his mighty working, who worketh in me mightily.

both the Father and Christ, In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And ye are filled by him, who is the head of all principality and power.

By whom also ye are circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ:

Buried with him in baptism, by which ye are also risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead.

And you who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him,

Whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that he might know your state and comfort your hearts,

With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you: they will make known to you all things that are done here.

Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas; (touching whom ye have received directions, if he come to you,

receive him,) And Jesus, called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these are the only fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayer, that ye may stand, perfect and filled, with all the will of God.