1 Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven. 2 Be instant in prayer; watching in it with thanksgiving: 3 Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound;) 4 That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak. 5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man. 7 All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother, and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you, 8 Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts, 9 With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you. 10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabus, touching whom you have received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him: 11 And Jesus, that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision: these only are my helpers in the kingdom of God; who have been a comfort to me. 12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God. 13 For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you, and for them that are at Laodicea, and them at Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas. 15 Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in his house. 16 And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans. 17 And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it. 18 The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen.
Colosenses · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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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)