4:1 Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven:

4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving:

4:3 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:

4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak:

4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time:

4:6 Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye 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 fellowservant in the Lord:

4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, 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 fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister' s son to Barnabas, ( touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him:

4:11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only [are my] fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me:

4:12 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:

4:13 For I bear him record, that he hath 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 Salute the brethren which 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 ye 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 fulfil it:

4:18 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: