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Colossians 4:16

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

KJV

καὶ ὅταν ἀναγνωσθῇ παρ’ ὑμῖν ἡ ἐπιστολή, ποιήσατε ἵνα καὶ ἐν τῇ Λαοδικέων ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀναγνωσθῇ, καὶ τὴν ἐκ Λαοδικίας ἵνα καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀναγνῶτε.

Greek NT

Et cum lecta fuerit apud vos epistola hæc, facite ut et in Laodicensium ecclesia legatur : et eam, quæ Laodicensium est, vos legatis.

Vulgate

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

ASV

And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

Places Laodicea

In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Λαοδίκεια
laodikeia
noun · 6×
Λαοδικεύς
laodikeus
noun · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἀναγινώσκω
anaginosko
verb · 32×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιστολή
epistole
noun · 24×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὅταν
otan
conjunction · 123×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: Λαοδικέων | WH/Treg/NIV: Λαοδικέων | RP: Λαοδικαίων
  • ΛαοδικέωνSBLGNT
  • ΛαοδικέωνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ΛαοδικαίωνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 5:27 — I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
  • 1Thess 5:27 — I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
  • 2Thess 3:14 — And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
  • Exod 24:7 — And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
  • Rev 3:14 — And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;