4:1 | Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. |
4:2 | Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; |
4:3 | 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: |
4:4 | That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. |
4:5 | Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. |
4:6 | Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. |
4:6 | 你們的言語要常常帶著和氣、好像用鹽調和、就可知道該怎樣回答各人。 |
4:6 | 你们的言语要常常带着和气,好像用盐调和,就可知道该怎样回答各人。 |
mak:9:50 | Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. |
1pe:3:15 | But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: |
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4:7 | All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: |
4:8 | Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; |
4:9 | With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here. |
4:10 | Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;) |
4:11 | 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. |
4:12 | 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. |
4:13 | For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis. |
4:14 | Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. |
4:15 | Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. |
4:16 | 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. |
4:17 | And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. |
4:18 | The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. |