New Revised Standard Version
For I testify for him that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.

Contemporary English Version
I have seen how much trouble he has gone through for you and for the followers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

New American Bible
For I can testify that he works very hard for you and for those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis.

For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis.

I bear.

Romans 10:2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

2 Corinthians 8:3 For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their power, they were willing:

Laodicea.

63 miles east of Ephesus; and became one of the largest and richest towns in Phrygia, vying in power with the maritime cities. It is now called Eski-hissar, the old castle; and besides the whole surface within the city's wall being strewed with pedestals and fragments, the ruins of an amphitheatre, a magnificent odeum, and other public buildings, attest its former splendour and magnificence. But, when visited by Dr. Chandler, all was silence and solitude; and a fox, first discovered by his ears peeping over a brow, was the only inhabitant of Laodicea. Hierapolis, now Pambouk-Kaiesi, was situated, according to the Itinerary, six miles N. of Laodicea; and its ruins are now about a mile and a half in circumference.

Colossians 4:15,16 Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the church that is in his house. . . .

Colossians 2:1 For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

Revelation 1:11 Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

Revelation 3:14-18 And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God: . . .