Study it in the app“And when this letter has been read among you, see that it is read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.”
Andκαὶwhenὅτανthis letterἡ ἐπιστολήhas been readἀναγνωσθῇamongπαρ’you,ὑμῖνseeποιήσατεthatἵναit is readἀναγνωσθῇalsoκαὶinἐνthe assemblyτῇ ἐκκλησίᾳof the Laodiceans,Λαοδικέωνandκαὶthatἵναyouὑμεῖςalsoκαὶreadἀναγνῶτεthe letterτὴνfromἐκLaodicea.Λαοδικείας
when, whenever
When, whenever.
Where else “hotan” appearsletter
Letter.
Where else “epistolē” appearsread
Read.
Where else “anagnōsthēi” appearsdo
To carry out an action or cause an effect.
Where else “poiēsate” appearschurch
Those who believe in Jesus, gathered as his people.
Where else “ekklēsiai” appearsLaodicean
Laodicean: someone who lives in Laodicea.
Where else “Laodikeōn” appearsLaodicea
See it on the mapWhere else “Laodikeias” appears“The one from Laodicea”: it is not known which letter this is; there is none by that name in the New Testament.
Laodicea
Today: Laodicea ruins, near Denizli, Turkey
A city in what is now southwest Turkey, in the Lycus River valley, near Colossae.
Paul cared about its assembly and asked that his letter be read there (Col 2:1; 4:16). Jesus rebuked it for being lukewarm (Rev 3:14-16).
15Greet the brothers in Laodicea, and Nympha and the assembly in her house.
16 · This verse (above)
17And say to Archippus, “See to the service that you received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”
