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An Encouragement for Prayer

Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains. Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should.

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Closing Exhortations

Devote yourselves to prayer. Be alert[a] and thankful when you pray. At the same time also pray for us—that God would open before us a door for the word so that we may tell the secret about the Messiah,[b] for which I have been imprisoned. May I reveal it as clearly as I should![c]

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 4:2 Lit. Be alert in it
  2. Colossians 4:3 Or Christ
  3. Colossians 4:4 Lit. as I should speak