For I want you to know
how great a struggle
I have on your behalf
and for those in Laodicea
and any who have not seen
my face, in the flesh,
so that their hearts might be encouraged
having been knit together
in love,
and into every kind of riches
that is the full wealth of full assurance, (the result of) understanding
– namely a fuller knowledge of the secret of God
that is Christ
in whom all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge
are hidden.

I say this, so that no-one will deceive you,
by attractive arguments.
For although I am away in the flesh,
I am with you in spirit,
rejoicing to see
your good order
and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.