Colossians 4:1–18

¹YOU​ masters, keep dealing out what is righteous and what is fair to [your] slaves, knowing that ​YOU​ also have a Master in heaven.

²Be persevering in prayer, remaining awake in it with thanksgiving,³at 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;⁴so that I shall make it manifest as I ought to speak.

⁵Go on walking in wisdom toward those on the outside, buying out the opportune time for yourselves.⁶Let ​YOUR​ utterance be always with graciousness, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ​YOU​ ought to give an answer to each one.

⁷All my affairs Tych′i‧cus, [my] beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in [the] Lord, will make known to ​YOU.⁸For 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 ​YOU⁹along with O‧nes′i‧mus, my faithful and beloved brother, who is from among ​YOU. All the things here they will make known to ​YOU.

¹⁰Ar‧is‧tar′chus my fellow captive sends ​YOU​ his greetings, and so does Mark the cousin of Bar′na‧bas, (concerning whom ​YOU​ received commands to welcome him if ever he comes to ​YOU,)¹¹and 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.¹²Ep′a‧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.¹³I indeed bear him witness that he puts himself to great effort in behalf of ​YOU​ and of those at La‧o‧di‧ce′a and of those at Hi‧e‧rap′o‧lis.

¹⁴Luke the beloved physician sends ​YOU​ his greetings, and so does De′mas.¹⁵Give my greetings to the brothers at La‧o‧di‧ce′a and to Nym′pha and to the congregation at her house.¹⁶And when this letter has been read among ​YOU, arrange that it also be read in the congregation of the La‧o‧di‧ce′ans and that ​YOU​ also read the one from La‧o‧di‧ce′a.¹⁷Also, tell Ar‧chip′pus: “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.