1. Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
2. Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
3. withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
4. that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
7. All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:
8. whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our estate, and that he may comfort your hearts;
9. together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here.
10. Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (touching whom ye received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him),
11. and Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, men that have been a comfort unto me.
12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
13. For I bear him witness, that he hath much labour for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.