Father Mike Schmitz

You are serving the Lord Christ.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Chapter 4 Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Further Instructions Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

And pray for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison, that I may make it clear as I ought to speak.

Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

Final greetings and benediction.

Tychicus will tell you all about my affairs.

He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts and with him Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother who is one of yourselves.

They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom you have received instructions, if he comes to you, receive him.

And Jesus, who is called Justice.

These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always remembering you earnestly in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

for I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and Heropolis.

Luke, the beloved physician, and Dimas greet you.

Give my greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.

And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans.