1. For I want you to know the kind of solicitude that I have for you, and for those who are at Laodicea, as well as for those who have not seen my face in the flesh.
2. May their hearts be consoled and instructed in charity, with all the riches of a plenitude of understanding, with knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus.
3. For in him are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4. Now I say this, so that no one may deceive you with grandiose words.
5. For though I may be absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit. And I rejoice as I gaze upon your order and its foundation, which is in Christ, your faith.
6. Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him.
7. Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving.
8. See to it that no one deceives you through philosophy and empty falsehoods, as found in the traditions of men, in accord with the influences of the world, and not in accord with Christ.
9. For in him, all the fullness of the Divine Nature dwells bodily.
10. And in him, you have been filled; for he is the head of all principality and power.