so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

because all [things] in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all [things] were created through him and for him,

and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together,

because he was well pleased [for] all the fullness to dwell in him,

and through him to reconcile all [things] to himself, [by] making peace through the blood of his cross, through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

but now you have been reconciled by {his physical body} through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him,

firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness.

because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

and you are filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with [him] through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

And {although you were dead} in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

When Christ, [who is] your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

and have put on the new [man] that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him,

and everything {whatever} you do in word or in deed, giving thanks [for] all [things] in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions--if he should come to you, welcome him),

For I testify to him that {he is working hard} on behalf of you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.