Colossians 4:1-18
4 YOU masters, keep dealing out what is righteous and what is fair to [your] slaves,+ knowing that YOU also have a Master in heaven.+
2 Be persevering in prayer,+ remaining awake in it with thanksgiving,+
3 at the same time praying also for us,+ that God may open a door+ of utterance to us, to speak the sacred secret+ about the Christ, for which, in fact, I am in prison bonds;+
4 so that I shall make it manifest as I ought to speak.+
5 Go on walking in wisdom toward those on the outside,+ buying out the opportune+ time for yourselves.
6 Let YOUR utterance be always with graciousness,*+ seasoned with salt,+ so as to know how YOU ought to give an answer+ to each one.
7 All my affairs Tychʹi·cus,+ [my] beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in [the] Lord, will make known to YOU.
8 For the very purpose of YOUR knowing the things having to do with us and that he may comfort YOUR hearts,+ I am sending him to YOU
9 along with O·nesʹi·mus,+ my faithful and beloved brother, who is from among YOU. All the things here they will make known to YOU.
10 Ar·is·tarʹchus+ my fellow captive sends YOU his greetings, and so does Mark+ the cousin of Barʹna·bas, (concerning whom YOU received commands to welcome+ him if ever he comes to YOU,)
11 and Jesus who is called Justus, these being of those circumcised.* Only these are my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and these very ones have become a strengthening aid to me.
12 Epʹa·phras,+ who is from among YOU, a slave of Christ Jesus, sends YOU his greetings, always exerting himself in YOUR behalf in [his] prayers, that YOU may finally stand complete+ and with firm conviction in all the will of God.
13 I indeed bear him witness that he puts himself to great effort in behalf of YOU and of those at La·o·di·ceʹa+ and of those at Hi·e·rapʹo·lis.
14 Luke+ the beloved physician* sends YOU his greetings, and so does Deʹmas.+
15 Give my greetings to the brothers at La·o·di·ceʹa and to Nymʹpha and to the congregation at her house.+
16 And when this letter has been read among YOU, arrange that it also be read+ in the congregation of the La·o·di·ceʹans and that YOU also read the one from La·o·di·ceʹa.
17 Also, tell Ar·chipʹpus:+ “Keep watching the ministry which you accepted in [the] Lord, that you fulfill it.”
18 [Here is] my greeting, Paul’s, in my own hand.+ Continue bearing my [prison] bonds+ in mind. The undeserved kindness be with YOU.
Footnotes
^ Or, “with what is favorable.”
^ Lit., “out of circumcision.”
^ Lit., “healer.” Gr., i·a·trosʹ; Lat., meʹdi·cus.
