For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

He is also the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that He might come to have
first place in everything.

You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.

And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

When this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.