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.