1 Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
2 Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,
3 praying at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door of the message, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which also
4 so that I may reveal
5 Live with wisdom toward those outside, making the most of the time.
6 Let your speech always
7 Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all
8 whom I have sent to you for this very
9 together with Onesimus, my faithful and dear brother, who is
10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions—if he should come to you, welcome him),
11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These
12 Epaphras, who is
13 For I testify to him that
14 Luke the physician, our dear friend, greets you,
15 Greet the brothers in Laodicea, and Nympha and the church in her
16 And whenever this letter is read among you,
17 And tell Archippus, “Direct your attention to the ministry that you received in the Lord, in order that you may complete it.”
18 The greeting