Colossians 4:1,2 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Colossians 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.

Colossians 4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Don't waste your time.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt.(grey sea salt and himalayan rock salt both improve the flavor of what you're eating, metaphorically, what your saying; avoid regular table salt), that you may know how to answer.(when you answer another, you are responding to their questioning).every individual.

Proverbs 25:11 "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

If you want your answers to questions to be with grace and have good seasoning on them, then you'll have this in mind and because of that, you'll know how to answer and you'll know how much salt to add and when, so that when you leave, they'll miss you, not be glad you're gone..(*)

2Peter 2:11; Jude 1:9.

Colossians 4:7,8 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord, whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate and comfort your hearts;

Colossians 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.

Colossians 4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, touching whom you received commandments. If he come unto you, receive him.

Colossians 4:11 And Jesus.(aka Emmanuel), 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.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Colossians 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.

Colossians 4:14 Luke, the beloved physician and Demas, greet you.

Luke must have been a good physician to be beloved as he was. Other physicians back then were not as Luke:.Mark 5:25,26 "And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered but rather grew worse."

Having little, if any, working knowledge of their wonderful bodies, people today avoid thinking much about them unless something hurts. They need to decide to be proactive:.Jeremiah 8:22; Luke 8:43,44.

Colossians 4:15-17 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea and Nymphas and the church which is in his house. And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

Colossians 4:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. <Written from Rome to Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus>.(Paul signed the letter he apparently dictated to Tychicus and Onesimus; he perhaps had some difficulty seeing)

....next New Testament book is 1Thessalonians