came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

He disarmed the principalities and dominions and displayed them openly, triumphing over them through him.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.