4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven.
4:2 Continue in prayer and watch therein with thanksgiving,
4:3 besides 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 those who are outsiders, redeeming the time.
4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
4:7 Tychicus, who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, shall declare unto you all my circumstances.
4:8 I have sent him unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your state and comfort your hearts,
4:9 and with him 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 saluteth you, and also Mark, Barnabas’ sister’s son (concerning whom ye received instructions that 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 for the Kingdom of God, who have been a comfort unto me.
4:12 Epaphras, a servant of Christ who is one of you, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
4:13 For I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you and for those who are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.
4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
4:15 Salute 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 likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
4:17 And say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.”
4:18 The salutation by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
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