1 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven. 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful, 3 as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. 4 Pray that I may declare it clearly, as I should. 5 Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. 7 Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a beloved brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts. 9 With him I am sending Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here. 10 My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you greetings, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have already received instructions about him: If he comes to you, welcome him. 11 Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me. 12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God. 13 For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas send you greetings. 15 Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nympha and the church that meets at her house. 16 After this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea. 17 Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.” 18 This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.
Colosenses · Berean Standard Bible
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Personas y lugares de este capítulo
Del árbol genealógico y los mapas bíblicos de este sitio (en inglés), solo donde esas guías citan este capítulo.
Personas
Archippus
Called by Paul his fellow soldier and told to complete the ministry he received in the Lord.
Citado en la guía: Colossians 4:17; Philemon 2
Demas
A coworker of Paul who sends greetings from Rome, but later deserted him because he loved the present world.
Citado en la guía: Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:10; Philemon 24
Epaphras
A faithful minister of Christ who taught the Colossians, wrestled for them in prayer, and was Paul's fellow prisoner.
Citado en la guía: Colossians 1:7; Colossians 4:12; Philemon 23
Luke
Paul's beloved physician and coworker who stayed with him when others had left him in his final imprisonment.
Citado en la guía: Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon 24
Nympha
A woman whose house hosts a church to which Paul sends greetings.
Citado en la guía: Colossians 4:15
Onesimus
A slave who became a believer through Paul in prison and whom Paul sent back to Philemon as a beloved brother.
Citado en la guía: Colossians 4:9; Philemon 10
Tychicus
A man from Asia who traveled with Paul; Paul calls him a beloved brother and faithful servant and sent him with letters to Ephesus, Colossae, and elsewhere.
Citado en la guía: Acts 20:4; Ephesians 6:21; Colossians 4:7
Referencias cruzadas (18)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Efesios 6:8–20; Apocalipsis 17:14; Deuteronomio 24:14–15; Santiago 2:13; Lucas 16:1–13
- 2 1 Tesalonicenses 5:17–18; Filipenses 4:6; Efesios 6:18; Romanos 12:12; Mateo 26:41
- 3 Efesios 6:19–20; Hechos 14:27; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:1–2; Filipenses 1:13–14; 1 Corintios 4:1
- 4 2 Corintios 4:1–4; Efesios 6:20; Colosenses 4:6; 2 Corintios 3:12; 2 Corintios 2:14–17
- 5 Efesios 5:15–17; Santiago 3:13; Santiago 3:17; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:12; Romanos 16:19
- 6 Efesios 4:29; 1 Pedro 3:15; Eclesiastés 10:12; Marcos 9:50; Proverbios 15:4
- 7 Efesios 6:21–23; Hechos 20:4; 2 Timoteo 4:12; Tito 3:12; 1 Corintios 4:1–4
- 8 Efesios 6:22; Colosenses 2:2; 2 Corintios 12:18; 1 Corintios 4:17; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:11
- 9 Filemón 10–19; Colosenses 4:7
- 10 Hechos 19:29; 2 Timoteo 4:11; Filemón 24; Hechos 15:37–39; Hechos 27:2
- 11 Hechos 11:2; Tito 1:10; Filemón 1; Romanos 4:12; 2 Corintios 6:1
- 12 Romanos 15:30; Colosenses 1:9; Colosenses 1:28; Colosenses 1:7; Filemón 23
- 13 Colosenses 2:1; 2 Corintios 8:3; Apocalipsis 3:14–18; Romanos 10:2; Apocalipsis 1:11
- 14 Filemón 24; 2 Timoteo 4:10–11
- 15 Romanos 16:5; 1 Corintios 16:9; Filemón 2
- 16 1 Tesalonicenses 5:27; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:14
- 17 Filemón 2; Hechos 1:17; 1 Timoteo 4:16; 2 Timoteo 1:6; 1 Corintios 4:1–2
- 18 Hebreos 13:3; 1 Timoteo 6:21; 2 Timoteo 4:22; 1 Corintios 16:21; Hebreos 13:25
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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What Christ said to His disciples, that doth Paul also now advise. And what did Christ say? "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." (Matt. x. 16.) That is, be upon your guard, giving them no handle against you.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
And again he says, in the Epistle to the Colossians: "Luke, the beloved physician, greets you." But surely if Luke, who always preached in company with Paul, and is called by him "the beloved," and with him performed the work of an evangelist, and was entrusted to hand down to us a Gospel, learned nothing different from him (Paul), as …
For this very reason He Himself also discoursed much unto the Jews in parables, "because they seeing saw not." For this, Paul likewise commanded "to know how we ought to answer every man."
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)