as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,

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

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

And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,

to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

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

in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

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

being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with him through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that he might know the things concerning you, and might comfort your hearts,

with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; all things to you shall they make known that are here.

Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)

and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are fellow-workers for the reign of God who did become a comfort to me.

Salute you doth Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,