Chapter 4 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that
ye also have a Master in heaven.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving, with all praying also
for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of
Christ, for which I am also in bonds, that I may make it manifest as I ought to
speak.
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Let your speech be all the way with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how
ye ought to answer every man.
All my estate shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother and a
faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, whom I have sent unto you for
the same purpose, that he might know your estate and comfort your hearts.
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you, they shall
make known unto you all things which are done here.
Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to
Barnabas, touching whom you received commandments, if he come unto you,
receive him.
And Jesus, which is called Justice, who are of the circumcision.
These only are my fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort
unto me.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring
fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will
of God.
For I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in
Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphos, and the church which is in
his house.
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.
And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the
Lord, that thou fulfil it.
The salutation by the hand of me, Paul.
Remember my bonds.
Grace be with you.
Amen.
Written from Rome to Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.