Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,

For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:

For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge:

Which he performed in Christ, having raised him from the dead, and he sat on his right hand in the heavenlies,

And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)

And raised together, and seated together in heavenlies in Christ Jesus:

That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

And now in Christ Jesus ye who then being far off have become near in the blood of Christ.

Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone;

For this, I Paul, the imprisoned of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,)

For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:

To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.

And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

According to the purpose of times immemorial which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,

To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.

To him the glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations of the times of times. Amen.

And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:

Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ.

And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:

And ye have not so learned Christ;

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.

For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.

Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father;

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;

This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church.

Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;

Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:

Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace with all loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibleness. Amen.

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest;

And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ.

Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:

For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.

For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you.

Only live as citizens worthy of the good news of Christ: that whether coming and seeing you, whether being absent, I shall bear the things concerning you, that ye stand in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in faith of the good news;

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;

If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies,

For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus;

And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father.

Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus.

Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.

For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh.

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:

For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.

And God will fill up all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Greet ye every one holy in Christ Jesus. The brethren with me greet you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We return thanks to God. and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy,

As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus:

That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

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

Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.

Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all.

(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.