CHAPTER 1

1:1 Having heard of the abundant good order of your love which is according to God, I have with gladness chosen to address you in the faith of Jesus Christ;

1:2 for having been deemed worthy of the most Godlike name in the bonds I bear about, I celebrate the Churches, in which I pray that there may be the union of the body and spirit of Jesus Christ, our everlasting life, and of faith and love, to which there is nothing preferable, but above all of Jesus and the Father, in whom abiding and escaping all the insults of the ruler of this world, we shall attain unto God.