[1] For I would knew what great conflict I have and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as not seen face in the flesh; [2] That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of Christ; [3] In whom hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [4] I say, should beguile with enticing words. [5] For I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with in the spirit, joying and beholding order, and the stedfastness faith in Christ. [6] As therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: [7] Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein thanksgiving. [8] Beware lest any man through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. [9] For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. [10] And complete in him, which the head of all principality and power: