COLOSSIANS CHAPTER IV.

MASTERS, give unto your servants that which 
is just and equal; knowing that ye also have 
a Master in heaven. 
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same 
with thanksgiving;
3 Withal 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:
4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to 
speak. 
5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, 
redeeming the time. 
6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned 
with salt, that ye may know how ye ought 
to answer every man.
7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you 
who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and 
fellow-servant in the Lord: 
8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose,
that he might know your estate, and comfort 
your hearts;
9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, 
who is one of you. They shall make known unto 
you all things which are done here. 
10 Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, saluteth you; 
and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching 
whom ye received commandments: if he come unto 
you, receive him;)
11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are 
of the circumcision. These only are my fellow-
workers unto the kingdom of God, which have been 
a comfort unto me. 
12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of 
Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently
for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and 
complete in all the will of God. 
13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great 
zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and 
them in Hierapolis. 
14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, 
greet you. 
15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, 
and Nymphas, and the church which is in his 
house. 
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. 
17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the 
ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that 
thou fulfil it. 
18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember
my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. 

Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.  

COLOSSIANS CHAPTER III

IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the 
right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on 
things on earth. 
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with 
Christ in God. 
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then 
shall ye also appear with him in glory. 
5 Mortify therefore your members which are 
upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate
affection, and evil concupiscence, and covetousness, 
which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh 
on the children of disobedience. 
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when 
ye lived in them. 
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, 
wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out 
of your mouth. 
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have 
put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed
in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision 
or uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, 
bond nor free: But Christ is all, and in all. .
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy 
and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness
of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one 
another, if any man have a quarrel against any:
even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, 
which is the bond of perfectness. 
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, 
to the which also ye are called in one body; and 
be ye thankful. 
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in 
all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another 
in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing 
with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all 
in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to 
God and the Father by him. 
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own 
husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter
against them. 
20 Children, obey your parents in all things 
for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord. 
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger
lest they be discouraged. 
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according 
to the flesh; not with eye-service, as menpleasers; 
but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to 
the Lord, and not unto men;
24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive 
the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the 
Lord Christ. 
25 But he that doeth wrong, shall receive for 
the wrong which he hath done: and there is no 
respect of persons. 

COLOSSIANS CHAPTER II

FOR I would that ye knew what great conflict
I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and 
for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance
of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the 
mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom 
and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile
you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I 
with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your
order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus 
the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in 
the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein 
with thanksgiving. 
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after 
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
bodily. 
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the 
head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the 
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body 
of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye 
are risen with him through faith of the operation 
of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the 
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together 
with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinance
that was against us, which was contrary to us, and 
took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he 
made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, 
or in drink, or in respect of an holy-day, or of the 
new-moon, or of the sabbath-days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but 
the body is of Christ. 
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in 
a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding
into those things which he hath not seen, 
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. 
19 And not holding the Head, from which all 
the body by joints and bands having nourishment
ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the 
increase of God. 
20 Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from 
the rudiments of the world, why as though living 
in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after 
the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in 
will-worship, and humility, and neglecting of the 
body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. 

The Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the COLOSSIANS CHAPTER I

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of 
God, and Timotheus our brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ
which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, 
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We give thanks to God, and the Father of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, 
and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
5 For the hope which is laid up for you in 
heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the 
truth in the gospel:
6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world;
and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the 
day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow-
servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. 
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard 
it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that 
ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will 
in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto 
all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and 
increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his 
glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering
with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath 
made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of 
the saints in light:
13  Who hath delivered us from the power of 
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom 
of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his 
blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the 
first-born of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are 
in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities,
or powers: all things were created by him, 
and for him: 
17 And he is before all things, and by him all 
things consist,
18 And he is the head of the body, the church:
who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead;
that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. 
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should
all fulness dwell; 
20 And, having made peace through the blood 
of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto 
himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in 
earth, or things in heaven. 
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and 
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now
hath he reconciled. 
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to 
present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable 
in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, 
and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, 
which ye have heard, and which was preached to 
every creature which is under heaven; whereof I 
Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and 
fill up that which is behind the afflictions of Christ
in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to 
the dispensation of God which is given to me for 
you to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which had been hid from 
ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest
to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is 
the riches of the glory of this mystery among the 
Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and 
teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may 
present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according 
to his working, which worketh in me mightily. 

PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER IV.

THEREFORE, my brethren and dearly beloved and 
longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast 
in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 
2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche,
that they be of the same mind in the Lord. 
3 And I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help 
those women which laboured with me in the gospel, 
with Clement also, and with other my fellow 
labourers, whose names are in the book of life. 
4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, 
Rejoice. 
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. 
The Lord is at hand. 
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by 
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your 
requests be made known unto God. 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all 
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds 
through Christ Jesus. 
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, 
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things 
are just, whatosever things are pure, whatsoever 
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good 
report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any 
praise, think on these things. 
9 Those things which ye have both learned, 
and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and 
the God of peace shall be with you. 
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now 
at the last your care of me hath flourished
again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked 
opportunity. 
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I 
have learned, in whatsoever state I am therewith 
to be content. 
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know 
how to abound: every where and in all things I am 
instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to 
abound and to suffer need. 
13 I can do all tings through Christ, which
strengtheneth me. 
14 Notwithstanding, ye have well done that ye 
did communicate with my affliction. 
15 Now ye Philippians, know also, that in the 
beginning of the gospel, when I departed from 
Macedonia, no church communicated with me as 
concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 
16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and 
again unto my necessity. 
17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire 
fruit that may abound to your account. 
18 But I have all, and abound: I am full 
having received of Epaphroditus the things which
were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a 
sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. 
19 But my God shall supply all your need 
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 
20 Now unto God and our Father be glory forever 
and ever. Amen. 
21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The 
brethren which are with me greet you. 
22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that 
are of Cesar's household. 
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with 
you all. Amen. 

-- It was written to the Philippians from Rome, by Epaphroditus.