having come to you, as it is indeed in the whole world bearing fruit and increasing, as also among you, from the day on which you heard and have known the grace of God in truth;

who also having revealed to us your divine love in the Spirit.

unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.

in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ;

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you are also raised by the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead:

when Christ, your life, may appear, then will you also appear with him in glory.

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any one may have a quarrel against any one; as Christ also forgave you, so indeed do you likewise:

Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

at the same time also praying for us, in order that God may open to us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which I indeed am bound;

And when the letter may be read by you, cause that it may also be read in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you may also read the letter from Laodicea.