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Colossians Chapter 4

¹Masters, give to your servants what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

²Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving, ³praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of the AnointedOne, for which I am also in bonds, ⁴that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.

⁵Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

⁶Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

⁷All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the dear brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

⁸I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts, ⁹together with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

¹⁰Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"), ¹¹and Jesus called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God's Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.

¹²Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the AnointedOne, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

¹³For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

¹⁴Luke, the dear physician, and Demas greet you.

¹⁵Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.

¹⁶When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

¹⁷Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it." ¹⁸The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.