Whatever you are doing,<n id="1" /> work at it with enthusiasm,<n id="2" /> as to the Lord and not for people,<n id="3" />

For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong,<n id="1" /> and there are no exceptions.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you,<n id="1" /> and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.<n id="2" />

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom<n id="1" /> with their self-imposed worship and false humility<n id="2" /> achieved by an<n id="3" /> unsparing treatment of the body &#8211; a wisdom with no true value &#8211; they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.<n id="4" />p>

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave<n id="1" /> or free, but Christ is all and in all.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you,<n id="1" /> have not ceased praying for you and asking God<n id="2" /> to fill<n id="3" /> you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you<n id="1" /> through an empty, deceitful philosophy<n id="2" /> that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits<n id="3" /> of the world, and not according to Christ.

He has not held fast<n id="1" /> to the head from whom the whole body, supported<n id="2" /> and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.<n id="3" />p>