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1Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

2Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

3withal 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;

4that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

5Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

7All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:

8whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;

9together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here.

10Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (touching whom ye received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him),

11and Jesus that 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.

12Epaphras, 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.

13For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

14Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you.

15Salute the brethren that are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in their house.

16And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

17And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

18The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

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Parallel translations · Colossians 4:1

WEB · World English Bible (2000)

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

KJV · King James Version (1611)

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

ASV · American Standard Version (1901)

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

BBE · Bible in Basic English (1949)

Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.

YLT · Young's Literal Translation (1862)

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

DRA · Douay-Rheims (Challoner) (1752)

Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

DBY · Darby Bible (1890)

Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in [the] heavens.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — verses that illuminate Colossians 4:1.

  • Malachi 3:5

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Deuteronomy 24:14

    Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:

  • Ecclesiastes 5:8

    If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

  • Matthew 23:8

    But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.

  • Nehemiah 5:5

    Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Leviticus 19:13

    Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

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