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

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.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days –

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.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

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

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,

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.

I sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

I sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

And after you have read this letter, have it read to the church of Laodicea. In turn, read the letter from Laodicea as well.