1. Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
2. Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,
3. praying at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door of the message, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which also I am a prisoner,
4. so that I may reveal it, as it is necessary for me to speak.
5. Live with wisdom toward those outside, making the most of the time.
6. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.
7. Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all my circumstances,
8. whom I have sent to you for this very reason, in order that you may know our circumstances and he may encourage your hearts,
9. together with Onesimus, my faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all the circumstances here.
10. Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions—if he should come to you, welcome him),
11. and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only ones who are fellow workers for the kingdom of God from the circumcision, who have been a comfort to me.
12. Epaphras, who is one of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.