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4:1 icapsasters, giue vnto your seruants that which is iust and equall, knowing that yee also haue a Master in heauen.  
4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thankesgiuing:  
4:3 Withall, praying also for vs, that God would open vnto vs a doore of vtterance, to speake the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:  
4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speake.  
4:5 Walke in wisdome toward them that are without, redeeming the time.  
4:6 Let your speech bee alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how yee ought to answere euery man.  
4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare vnto you, who is a beloued brother, and a faithfull minister, and fellow seruant in the Lord:  
4:8 Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same purpose, that hee might know your estate, and comfort your hearts.  
4:9 With Onesimus a faithfull and beloued brother, who is one of you. They shall make knowen vnto you all things which are done here.  
4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you, and Marcus sisters sonne to Barnabas, (touching whome yee receiued commandements; if he come vnto you, receiue him:)  
4:11 And Iesus, which is called Iustus, who are of the circumcision. These onely are my fellow workers vnto the kingdome of God, which haue beene a comfort vnto me.  
4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a seruant of Christ, saluteth you, alwaies labouring feruently for you in praiers, that ye may stand perfect, and complete in all the will of God. Margin Note
4:13 For I beare him record, that hee hath a great zeale for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.  
4:14 Luke the beloued physician, and Demas greet you.  
4:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, & the church which is in his house.  
4:16 And when this Epistle is read amongst you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that ye likewise reade the epistle from Laodicea,  
4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heede to the ministerie, which thou hast receiued in the Lord, that thou fulfill 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.