For this cause we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

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.

For I would have you know what a great conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me in person:

that their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all the riches of a full assurance of understanding in these things, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of our God and Father, and of Christ:

Take heed least any one make a prey of you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ:

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision not performed by hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision which is of Christ:

Let no one deprive you of your reward by an affected humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into what he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind;

and not adhering to the head, from which all the body, being supplied and held together as by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

(such as "touch not, taste not,

handle not," which all tend to corruption in the using,) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

Mind the things above, not those on the earth.

Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his evil practices;

and ye husbands, love your wives, and be not embittered against them.

and ye fathers, do not irritate your children, least they be discouraged.

Servants, be obedient in all things to your lawful masters, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in uprightness of heart, fearing God; and whatever service ye do,

do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;