Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.