Colossians 4
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
give.
Leviticus 19:13 You shall not defraud your neighbor, neither rob him…
Leviticus 25:39-43 And if your brother that dwells by you be waxen poor, and be sold …
Deuteronomy 15:12-15 And if your brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold to …
Deuteronomy 24:14,15 You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether …
Nehemiah 5:5-13 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as …
Job 24:11,12 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and …
Job 31:13-15 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, …
Isaiah 58:3,5-9 Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted …
Jeremiah 34:9-17 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
ye.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Matthew 23:8,9 But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; …
Matthew 24:48-51 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays …
Luke 16:1-13 And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, …
Luke 19:15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the …
Ephesians 6:8,9 Knowing that whatever good thing any man does, the same shall he …
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: …
Revelation 19:16 And he has on his clothing and on his thigh a name written, KING …
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Continue.
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always …
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease …
1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD …
Job 15:4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
Job 27:8-10 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when …
Psalm 55:16,17 As for me, I will call on God; and the LORD shall save me…
Psalm 109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.
See on
Luke 18:1 And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always …
Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit…
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication …
1 Thessalonians 5:17,18 Pray without ceasing…
watch.
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed …
Mark 13:33 Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.
Luke 21:36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy …
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and …
thanksgiving. See on ch.
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you …
Colossians 3:15,17 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also …
Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
praying.
Romans 15:30-32 Now I beseech you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and …
Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …
Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, …
1 Thessalonians 5:25 Brothers, pray for us.
Philemon 1:22 But with prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your …
Hebrews 13:18,19 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things …
that.
1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
2 Corinthians 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and …
2 Thessalonians 3:1,2 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have …
Revelation 3:7,8 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …
a door. The term door is used metaphorically for an entrance to any business, or occasion or opportunity of doing any thing; and consequently 'a door of utterance' is an opportunity of preaching the gospel successfully. See the parallel texts.
the mystery. See on ch.
Colossians 1:26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, …
Colossians 2:2,3 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, …
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards …
Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …
for.
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk …
Ephesians 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, …
Philippians 1:7,13,14 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have …
2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed …
2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even to bonds; but the …
That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
I may.
Matthew 10:26,27 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall …
Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant to your servants, …
2 Corinthians 3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2 Corinthians 4:1-4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, …
as.
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you …
Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to …
1 Corinthians 2:4,5 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's …
2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, …
Ephesians 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, …
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Walk.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching …
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
Romans 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore …
1 Corinthians 14:19-25 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, …
Ephesians 5:15-17 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise…
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …
James 3:13,17 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show …
them.
1 Corinthians 5:12,13 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not …
1 Thessalonians 4:12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that …
1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest …
1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, …
redeeming. See on
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
your.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching …
Deuteronomy 6:6,7 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart…
Deuteronomy 11:19 And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you …
1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvelous works among all nations.
Psalm 37:30,31 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment…
Psalm 40:9,10 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have …
Psalm 45:2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your …
Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he …
Psalm 71:15-18,23,24 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all …
Psalm 78:3,4 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…
Psalm 105:2 Sing to him, sing psalms to him: talk you of all his wondrous works.
Psalm 119:13,46 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth…
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs 15:4,7 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is …
Proverbs 16:21-24 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the …
Proverbs 22:17,18 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your …
Proverbs 25:11,12 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver…
Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool …
Malachi 3:16-18 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the …
Matthew 12:34,35 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …
Luke 4:22 And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which …
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that …
seasoned.
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of your meat offering shall you season with salt…
2 Kings 2:20-22 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they …
Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his flavor, …
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltiness, with which …
how.
Proverbs 26:4,5 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like to him…
Luke 20:20-40 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves …
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts…
All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
my.
Ephesians 6:21-23 But that you also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a …
Tychicus.
Acts 20:4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the …
2 Timothy 4:12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
Titus 3:12 When I shall send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come …
a beloved.
Colossians 4:9,12 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. …
See on
Ephesians 6:21 But that you also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a …
Philippians 2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, …
a faithful.
1 Corinthians 4:1-4 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards …
Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
I have.
1 Corinthians 4:17 For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, …
2 Corinthians 12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a …
Ephesians 6:22 Whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know …
Philippians 2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, …
1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your …
and comfort.
Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, …
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort you, comfort you my people, said your God.
Isaiah 61:2,3 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance …
2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort …
2 Corinthians 2:7 So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him…
1 Thessalonians 2:11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of …
1 Thessalonians 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow …
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Why comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5:11,14 Why comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do…
2 Thessalonians 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
Onesimus.
Colossians 4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare to you, who is a beloved brother, …
Philemon 1:10 I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
Aristarchus.
Acts 19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius …
Acts 20:4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the …
Acts 27:2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to …
Philemon 1:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow laborers.
saluteth. See on
Romans 16:21-23 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my …
and Marcus.
Acts 12:12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary …
Acts 13:5,13 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the …
Acts 15:37-39 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark…
2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you: for he is …
1 Peter 5:13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salutes …
receive.
Romans 16:2 That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you …
2 John 1:8,9 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have worked, …
And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.
who.
Acts 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many …
Acts 11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision …
Romans 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only…
Galatians 2:7,8 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision …
Ephesians 2:11 Why remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh…
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially …
fellow-workers.
Colossians 4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare to you, who is a beloved brother, …
1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, …
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you …
Philippians 4:3 And I entreat you also, true yoke fellow, help those women which …
1 Thessalonians 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow …
Philemon 1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon …
a comfort.
2 Corinthians 7:6,7 Nevertheless God, that comforts those that are cast down, comforted …
1 Thessalonians 3:7 Therefore, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our affliction …
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Epaphras.
Colossians 1:7 As you also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is …
Philemon 1:23 There salute you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
a servant.
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall …
Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for …
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve …
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ…
always. See on ver.
Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was …
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ …
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh…
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that …
labouring. or, striving.
Colossians 2:1-23 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and …
that.
Colossians 4:1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing …
Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and …
See on ch.
Colossians 1:9,22,28 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease …
Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
1 Corinthians 2:6 However, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the …
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be …
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of …
Philippians 3:12-15 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age…
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us …
Jude 1:24 Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present …
complete. or, filled.
Romans 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also …
For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
I bear.
Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according …
2 Corinthians 8:3 For to their power, I bear record, yes, and beyond their power they …
Laodicea. Laodicea and Hierapolis were both cities of Phrygia in Asia Minor, between which, and equidistant from each, was situated Colosse. Laodicea was seated near the Lycus, about
Colossians 4:15,16 Salute the brothers which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the …
Colossians 2:1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and …
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you …
Revelation 3:14-18 And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things …
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
Luke.
2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you: for he is …
Philemon 1:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow laborers.
Demas.
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is …
Philemon 1:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow laborers.
Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
Laodicea. See on ver.
Colossians 4:13 For I bear him record, that he has a great zeal for you, and them …
the church.
Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved …
1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
Philemon 1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and …
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
1 Thessalonians 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
Archippus.
Philemon 1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and …
Take.
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, …
Numbers 18:5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of …
2 Chronicles 29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD has chosen you to stand …
Ezekiel 44:23,24 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and …
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them: for …
1 Timothy 6:11-14,20 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, …
2 Timothy 4:1-5 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who …
the ministry.
Acts 1:17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
Acts 14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed …
1 Corinthians 4:1,2 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards …
Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; …
1 Timothy 4:6,14 If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall …
2 Timothy 1:6 Why I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which …
2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the …
fulfil.
2 Timothy 4:5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an …
The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
by.
1 Corinthians 16:21 The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.
2 Thessalonians 3:17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every …
Remember.
2 Timothy 1:8 Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of …
Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which …
Grace. See on
Romans 16:20,24 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. …
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the …
1 Timothy 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
Hebrews 13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS.
Colosse was a large and populous city of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor, seated on an eminence to the south of the river Meander. It is supposed to have occupied a site now covered with ruins, near the village of Konous or Khonas, and about twenty miles N.W. of Degnizlu. By whom, or at what time, the church at Colosse was founded is wholly uncertain; but it would appear from the apostle's declaration, ch. ii.
Colossians 4:1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing …
Colossians 4:3 With praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, …
