which is come unto you, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

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

giving thanks unto the father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of saints in light.

Which hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son,

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 - which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your minds were set in evil works - hath he now reconciled

yet now hath He reconciled in the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight:

if so be ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved from the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached throughout the whole creation, of which I Paul am a 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,

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to 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 ye which were dead in sin through the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened with him and hath forgiven us all our trespasses

and hath put out the handwriting that was against us, contained in the law written, and that hath he taken out of the way, and hath fastened it to his 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 man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly 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, -

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one has a complaint against any: even as Christ hath forgiven you, so also do ye.

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

I bear him record that he hath a fervent mind toward you, and toward them of Laodicea and them of 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.