and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

<p class="bodytext">If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits<n id="1" /> of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

When Christ (who is your<n id="1" /> life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.

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

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

<t /><p class="bodytext">Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave<n id="1" /> in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.<n id="2" />

And tell Archippus, &#8220;See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord.&#8221;p>

so that you may live<n id="1" /> worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects<n id="2" /> &#8211; bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

My goal is that<n id="1" /> their hearts, having been knit together<n id="2" /> in love, may be encouraged, and that<n id="3" /> they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,<n id="4" />

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths<n id="1" /> about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

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>

Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.p>

And after<n id="1" /> you have read this letter, have it read<n id="2" /> to the church of Laodicea. In turn, read the letter from Laodicea<n id="3" /> as well.

<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,

<p class="poetry">He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn<n id="1" /> from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross &#8211; through him,<n id="1" /> whether things on earth or things in heaven.p>

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm,<n id="1" /> without shifting<n id="2" /> from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.p>