Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.