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

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

Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so must you do also.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Slaves, obey those who are your human masters in everything, not with eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;

Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

Your speech must always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

and with him is Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your own. They will inform you about the whole situation here.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sakes.

You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word during great affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

For they themselves report about us as to the kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not intending to please people, but to please God, who examines our hearts.

For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—

in the same way we had a fond affection for you and were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always reach the limit of their sins. But wrath has come upon them fully.

But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it happened, as you know.