4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in it with thanksgiving;
4:3 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:
4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are outsiders, redeeming the time.
4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord:
4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your state, and comfort your hearts;
4:9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, cousin to Barnabas, (concerning whom you received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
4:11 And Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellow workers unto the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort unto me.
4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
4:13 For I bear him witness, that he has a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea and them in Hierapolis.
4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
4:15 Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
4:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.
4:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
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