1. For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
2. that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
3. in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,
4. and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,
5. for if even in the flesh I am absent--yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;
6. as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,
7. being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught-- abounding in it in thanksgiving.
8. See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
9. because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
10. and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,