even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

giving thanks to the Father, who made you fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light;

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

who is the image of the invisible God, preeminent over all creation.

He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"),

and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, men who have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church that is in her house.