Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair,(A) because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Further Instructions

Devote yourselves to prayer,(B) being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door(C) for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery(D) of Christ, for which I am in chains.(E)

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Þér sem eigið þræla, veitið þeim það sem rétt er og sanngjarnt og vitið, að einnig þér eigið Drottin á himni.

Verið staðfastir í bæninni. Vakið og biðjið með þakkargjörð.

Biðjið jafnframt fyrir oss, að Guð opni oss dyr fyrir orðið og vér getum boðað leyndardóm Krists. Hans vegna er ég nú bundinn.

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Christian Graces; Final Greetings

Masters,(A) give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Christian Graces

(B)Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it (C)with thanksgiving; (D)meanwhile praying also for us, that God would (E)open to us a door for the word, to speak (F)the [a]mystery of Christ, (G)for which I am also in chains,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 4:3 hidden truth