Colossians, Chapter 4

1. Maisters, do vnto your seruauntes that which is iust and equall, knowyng that ye also haue a maister in heauen.    2. Continue in prayer, and watche in the same with thankes geuyng:    3. Praying also for vs, that God may open vnto vs the doore of vtteraunce, that we may speake ye misterie of Christ, wherfore I am also in bondes:    4. That I may vtter it, as I ought to speake.    5. Walke in wisdome towarde the that are without, redeemyng the tyme.    6. Let your speache be alway in grace, powdered with salt, to knowe howe ye ought to aunswere euery man.    7. All my state shall Tychicus declare vnto you, [who is] a beloued brother and faythfull minister, and felowe seruaunt in the Lorde:    8. Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same thyng, that he myght knowe your state, and comfort your heartes,    9. With Onesimus a faythfull and beloued brother, which is of you. They shall shewe you of all thynges which [are] here.    10. Aristarchus my prison felowe saluteth you, and Marcus Barnabas sisters sonne, (touchyng whom ye receaued commaundementes:) If he come vnto you, receaue hym:    11. And Iesus, which is called Iustus, which are of the circumcision. These only are my workefelowes vnto the kyngdome of God, which hath ben vnto my consolation.    12. Epaphras which is of you, a seruaunt of Christe, saluteth you, alwayes labouryng feruently for you in prayers, that ye may stande perfect and fylled in all the wyll of God.    13. For I beare him recorde, that he hath a great zeale for you, and them [that are] in Laodicea, and them [that are] in Hierapolis.    14. Deare Lucas the phisition greeteth you, and Demas.    15. Salute the brethren [which are] in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the Churche which is in his house.    16. And when the epistle is read of you, make that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans: and that ye likewise reade the epistle from Laodicea.    17. And say to Archippus: take heede to the ministerie that thou hast receaued in the Lorde, that thou fulfyll it.    18. The salutation, by the hande of me, Paul. Remember my bondes. Grace be with you. Amen. Written from Rome to the Colossians, by Tychicus and Onesimus.