For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

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

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.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

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

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.