EMTV - Colossians - 4

4:1  Masters, provide to your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in the heavens.

4:2  Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving;

4:3  praying at the same time also for us, that God would open a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, because of which I am also in chains,

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

4:5  Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

4:6  Let your speech always be with grace, having been seasoned with salt, to know how you ought to answer each one.

4:7  Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all things about me.

4:8  I am sending him to you for this very thing, that he may know your circumstances, and he may encourage your hearts,

4:9  with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all the things happening here.

4:10  Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, with Mark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, receive him),

4:11  and Jesus who is called Justus. These alone are my fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are of the circumcision; they have proved to be a comfort to me.

4:12  Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

4:13  For I bear him witness that he has much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

4:14  Luke the beloved physician greets you, also Demas.

4:15  Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and the church in his house.

4:16  And whenever this letter is read before you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the one from Laodicea.

4:17  And say to Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."

4:18  This greeting by my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.