of which ye heard before in the word of truth, Which is come to you, as also it is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it hath done likewise among you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Who also hath made evident unto us your love in spirit.

Giving thanks unto the Father that hath made you sufficient for your share in the inheritance of the saints in the light,

Who hath rescued us out of the authority of the darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything.

For it hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell;

And, you, who at one time were estranged and enemies in your mind in your wicked works, yet, now, hath he fully reconciled,

yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

If, at least, ye are abiding still in the faith, founded and firm, and not to be moved away from the hope of the glad-message which ye have heard, which hath been proclaimed in all creation which is under heaven, - of which, I Paul, have become minister.

Of which, I, have become minister - according to the administration of God which hath been given unto me to you-ward, to fill up the word of God,

The sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages and from the generations, but, now, hath been made manifest unto his saints -

Unto whom God hath been pleased to make known what is the glorious wealth of this sacred secret among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory, -

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

And, as for you - who were, dead, by your offences and by the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath brought you to life together with him, - having in favour forgiven us all our offences,

Having blotted out the handwriting against us by the decrees, which was hostile to us, - and hath taken away, the same, out of the midst, nailing it up to the cross:

and hath spoiled rule and power, and hath made a show of them openly, and hath triumphed over them in his own person.

Let, no one, against you, be arbitrating, however wishful, - in respect of lowliness of mind, and of a religious observance of the messengers: upon what things he hath seen, taking his stand, in vain, puffed up by his carnal mind, -

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

And having put on the new - who is being moulded afresh unto personal knowledge, after the image of him that hath created him, -

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man hath a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

For I bear him witness, that he hath great toil in behalf of you, and them in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

And, as soon as the epistle hath been read amongst you, cause that, in the assembly of Laodiceans also, it be read; and, that from Laodicea, that, ye also, read.