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We giue thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, praying alwayes for you,

For the hope which is layd vp for you in heauen, whereof ye heard before in the word of the trueth of the Gospel,

As yee also learned of Epaphras our deare felow seruant, who is for you a faithfull Minister of Christ:

For this cause wee also, since the day we heard it, doe not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding:

For by him were all things created that are in heauen, and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell,

Who now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

Whereof I am made a Minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is giuen to mee for you, to fulfill the word of God:

1611 marginal noteOr, fully to preach the word of God, Rom. 1.19.

¶ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I haue for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as haue not seene my face in the flesh:

1611 marginal noteOr, feare or care.

For though I bee absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, ioying and beholding your order, and the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ.