This Epistle has been highly esteemed by several learned men of the church of Rome and others. The Quakers have printed a translation and plead for it, as the reader may see, by consulting Poole's Annotations on Col. vi. 16. Sixtus Senensis mentions two MSS., the one in the Sorbonne Library at Paris, which is a very ancient copy, and the other in the Library of Joannes a Viridario, at Padua, which he transcribed and published, and which is the authority for the following translation. There is a very old translation of this Epistle in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS., Cod. 1212.

1. Povlauj tsab ntawv tshaj tawm rau cov neeg
Laodicean
Tshooj 1
1 Povlauj yog ib tug Thwj Tim, tsis yog los ntawm tib neeg, tsis yog los ntawm tib neeg, tiam
sis los ntawm Yexus Khetos, rau cov kwv tij uas nyob hauv lub moos Laodicea.
2 Thov ua tsaug rau nej, thiab kev thaj yeeb, los ntawm Vajtswv Leej Txiv thiab peb tus Tswv
Yexus Khetos.
3 Kuv ua Vajtswv tsaug nyob rau hauv txhua txoj kev thov Vajtswv ntawm kuv, xwv kom nej
yuav tau mus ntxiv thiab ua siab ntev rau tej hauj lwm zoo nrhiav tej uas tau cog lus tseg rau
hnub txiav txim.
4 Tsis txhob cia tej lus uas tsis muaj nuj nqis ntawm ib qho teeb meem rau nej uas ua txhaum
qhov tseeb, xwv kom lawv yuav rub nej tawm ntawm qhov tseeb ntawm Txoj Moo Zoo uas
kuv tau tshaj tawm.
5 Thiab nim no thov kom Vajtswv pub, xwv kom kuv cov neeg hloov siab los ntseeg yuav tau
txais kev paub zoo txog qhov tseeb ntawm Txoj Moo Zoo, tau txais txiaj ntsig, thiab ua tej
hauj lwm zoo uas nrog rau txoj kev cawm seej.
6 Thiab nim no kuv txoj kev khi lus, uas kuv raug kev txom nyem hauv Khetos, tau tshwm
sim, uas kuv zoo siab thiab zoo siab.
7 Vim kuv paub tias qhov no yuav tig mus rau kuv txoj kev cawm seej mus ib txhis, uas yuav
yog los ntawm koj txoj kev thov Vajtswv, thiab tus Vaj Ntsuj Plig Dawb Huv muab.
8 Txawm kuv nyob los yog tuag; rau kuv txoj sia yuav yog txoj sia rau Tswv Yexus, tuag yuav
muaj kev xyiv fab.
9 Thiab peb tus Tswv yuav muab nws txoj kev hlub tshua rau peb, xwv kom nej yuav muaj
kev sib hlub sib xws, thiab muaj lub siab nyiam.
10 Yog li ntawd, kuv tus hlub, ib yam li nej tau hnov txog txoj kev los ntawm tus Tswv, yog
li ntawd xav thiab ua kom ntshai, thiab nws yuav muaj txoj sia nyob mus ib txhis rau nej;
11 Vim nws yog Vajtswv tus uas ua haujlwm hauv koj;
12 Thiab ua txhua yam yam tsis muaj kev txhaum.
13 Thiab qhov zoo tshaj plaws, kuv tus hlub, zoo siab rau tus Tswv Yexus Khetos, thiab zam
txhua yam kev qias neeg.
14 Cia txhua yam koj thov kom paub rau Vajtswv, thiab nyob twj ywm rau hauv Khetos txoj
lus qhuab qhia.
15 Thiab txhua yam uas zoo thiab muaj tseeb, thiab tshaj tawm zoo, thiab dawb huv, thiab ncaj
ncees, thiab ntxim hlub, tej yam no ua tau.
16 Tej yam uas nej tau hnov, thiab tau txais, xav txog tej yam no, thiab kev thaj yeeb yuav
nyob nrog nej.
17 Cov ntseeg sawv daws thov qhuas nej.
18 Peb tus Tswv Yexus Khetos txoj kev tshav ntuj nyob nrog nej lub siab. Amen.
19 Cia li muab tsab ntawv no rau cov Kaulauxais, thiab Phau Vaj Lug Kub Npaiv Npaum yuav
tsum nyeem nrog nej.