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Colossians 4 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Final Instructions and Greetings

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Masters, show to your slaves what is right and fair, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

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Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:3 - praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been bound,
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:4 - that I may make it manifest in the way I ought to speak.
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Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:6 - Let your [fn]words always be [fn]with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should answer each person.
(cf. Eph 6:21, 22 )
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Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all my affairs,

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:8 - whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts;
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:9 - [fn]and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will inform you about the whole situation here.
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Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received [fn]instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him);

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:11 - and also Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are from the circumcision, and they have proved to be a comfort to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:12 - Epaphras, who is one of your number, a slave of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand [fn]complete and fully assured in all the will of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:13 - For I testify for him that he has [fn]a deep concern for you and for those who are in Laodicea and Hierapolis.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:14 - Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:15 - Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea and also [fn]Nympha and the church that is in [fn]her house.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:16 - And when [fn]this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part read [fn]my letter that is coming from Laodicea.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:17 - And say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may [fn]fulfill it.”
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The greeting is in my own hand[fn]Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

LSB Footnotes
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Or gracious
Lit along with Onesimus
Or commands
Or firm
Or much toil, great pain
Or Nymphas (masc)
One early ms their
Lit the
Lit the
Or continually fulfill
Lit Paul’s
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