• Final Instructions and Greetings

  • 1 Masters, show to your slaves what is right and fair, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.
  • 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;
  • 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,
  • 4 that I may make it manifest in the way I ought to speak.
  • 5 Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
  • 6 Let your words always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should answer each person.
  • 7 Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all my affairs,
  • 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;
  • 9 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will inform you about the whole situation here.
  • 10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him);
  • 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.
  • 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 complete and fully assured in all the will of God.
  • 13 For I testify for him that he has a deep concern for you and for those who are in Laodicea and Hierapolis.
  • 14 Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.
  • 15 Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea and also Nympha and the church that is in her house.
  • 16 And when this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part read my letter that is coming from Laodicea.
  • 17 And say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”
  • 18 The greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.