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📚Masters, give your slaves what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.The importance of prayer
2 📚Persevere in prayer, and be alert in it with thanksgiving✭, 3 📚and be praying for us also, that God would open to us a door for the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ✭, for which I am in chains, 4 📚that I may make it clear, speaking as I should✭.
Proper behavior toward unbelievers
5 📚✭Behave with wisdom toward outsiders, redeeming the time. 6 📚Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you should answer everyone.
Various servants of Christ
7 📚Tychicus✭ will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, and a faithful servant and fellow worker in the Lord. 8 📚I have sent him to you for the same purpose, that he might learn how you are and encourage✭ your hearts, 9 📚with Onesimus✭, a faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is happening here.
10 📚Aristarchus✭ my fellow prisoner✭ greets you, as does Mark✭, the cousin of Barnabas (you received instructions about him. If he comes to you, receive him), 11 📚✭and Jesus, who is called Justus. These are the only ones of the circumcision✭ who work with me for the kingdom of God✭, and they have been a comfort to me. 12 📚Epaphras✭, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you. He is always striving earnestly for you in prayer✭, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 13 📚For I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea✭ and for those in Hierapolis. 14 📚Luke✭, the beloved physician, and Demas✭, greet you. 15 📚✭Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that meets in his house.
16 📚When this letter is read among you, see that it is read in the church of the Laodiceans also, and likewise that you read the letter from Laodicea.
17 📚And say to Archippus✭, “See that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord”.
18 📚This greeting I, Paul, am writing with my own hand✭. Remember my chains✭. Grace be with you. Amen.