I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.

Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

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.

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

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there are no exceptions.

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.

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

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.

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.

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 –

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

who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

And Jesus who is called Justus also sends greetings. In terms of Jewish converts, these are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave – a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf –

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,