✧Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. ✧2Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving, ✧3praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds, ✧4that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. ✧5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. ✧6Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. ✧7All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. ✧8I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts, ✧9together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here. ✧10Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received instructions, “if he comes to you, receive him”), ✧11and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me. ✧12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. ✧13For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis. ✧14Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you. ✧15Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, with Nymphas and the assembly that is in his house. ✧16When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea. ✧17Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.” ✧18I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.