Chapter 4

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give Lev 19:13, Lev 25:39-43; Deut 15:12-15, Deut 24:14-15; Neh 5:5-13; Job 24:11-12; Job 31:13-15; Isa 58:3, Isa 58:5-9; Jer 34:9-17; Mal 3:5; Jas 2:13, Jas 5:4

ye Eccl 5:8; Matt 23:8-9, Matt 24:48-51; Luke 16:1-13, Luke 19:15; Eph 6:8, Eph 6:9-20; Rev 17:14, Rev 19:16


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Continue Col 4:12, Col 1:9; 1Sam 12:23; Job 15:4, Job 27:8-10; Ps 55:16-17, Ps 109:4; Luke 18:1; Rom 12:12; Eph 6:18; Phil 4:6; 1Thess 5:17-18

watch Matt 26:41; Mark 13:33; Luke 21:36; 1Pet 4:7

thanksgiving Col 2:7, Col 3:15, Col 3:17


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praying Rom 15:30-32; Eph 6:19; Phil 1:19; 1Thess 5:25; Phlm 1:22; Heb 13:18-19

that 1Cor 16:9; 2Cor 2:12; 2Thess 3:1-2; Rev 3:7-8

a door The term door is used metaphorically for an entrance to any business, or occasion or opportunity of doing any thing; and consequently "a door of utterance" is an opportunity of preaching the gospel successfully. See the parallel texts.

the mystery Col 1:26, Col 2:2-3; Matt 13:11; 1Cor 4:1; Eph 6:19

for Eph 3:1, Eph 4:1, Eph 6:20; Phil 1:7, Phil 1:13-14; 2Tim 1:16, 2Tim 2:9


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I may Matt 10:26-27; Acts 4:29; 2Cor 3:12, 2Cor 4:1-4

as Col 4:6; Acts 5:29; 1Cor 2:4-5; 2Cor 2:14-17; Eph 6:20


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Walk Col 3:16; Ps 90:12; Matt 10:16; Rom 16:19; 1Cor 14:19-25; Eph 5:15-17; Jas 1:5, Jas 3:13, Jas 3:17

them 1Cor 5:12-13; 1Thess 4:12; 1Tim 3:7; 1Pet 3:1

redeeming Eph 5:16


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your Col 3:16; Deut 6:6-7, Deut 11:19; 1Chr 16:24; Ps 37:30-31, Ps 40:9-10, Ps 45:2, Ps 66:16; Ps 71:15-18, Ps 71:23-24, Ps 78:3-4, Ps 105:2, Ps 119:13, Ps 119:46; Prov 10:21, Prov 15:4, Prov 15:7; Prov 16:21-24, Prov 22:17-18, Prov 25:11-12; Eccl 10:12; Mal 3:16-18; Matt 12:34-35; Luke 4:22; Eph 4:29

seasoned Lev 2:13; 2Kgs 2:20-22; Matt 5:13; Mark 9:50

how Prov 26:4-5; Luke 20:20-40; 1Pet 3:15


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my Eph 6:21-23

Tychicus Acts 20:4; 2Tim 4:12; Titus 3:12

a beloved Col 4:9, Col 4:12; Eph 6:21; Phil 2:25

a faithful 1Cor 4:1-4


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I have 1Cor 4:17; 2Cor 12:18; Eph 6:22; Phil 2:28; 1Thess 3:5

and comfort Col 2:2; Isa 40:1, Isa 61:2-3; 2Cor 1:4, 2Cor 2:7; 1Thess 2:11, 1Thess 3:2, 1Thess 4:18, 1Thess 5:11, 1Thess 5:14; 2Thess 2:17


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Onesimus Col 4:7; Phlm 1:10-19


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Aristarchus Acts 19:29, Acts 20:4, Acts 27:2; Phlm 1:24

saluteth Rom 16:21-23

and Marcus Acts 12:12, Acts 13:5, Acts 13:13, Acts 15:37-39; 2Tim 4:11; 1Pet 5:13

receive Rom 16:2; 2John 1:8-9


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who Acts 10:45, Acts 11:2; Rom 4:12; Gal 2:7-8; Eph 2:11; Titus 1:10

fellowworkers Col 4:7; 1Cor 3:5-9; 2Cor 6:1; Phil 4:3; 1Thess 3:2; Phlm 1:1, Phlm 1:24

a comfort 2Cor 7:6-7; 1Thess 3:7


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Epaphras Col 1:7; Phlm 1:23

a servant John 12:26; Gal 1:10; Jas 1:1; 2Pet 1:1

always Col 4:2; Luke 22:44; Gal 4:19; Heb 5:7; Jas 5:16

labouring or, striving, Col 2:1-23

that Col 4:1; Rom 15:30; see note on Col 1:9, Col 1:22, Col 1:28; Matt 5:48; 1Cor 2:6, 1Cor 14:20 *Gr: 2Cor 13:11; Phil 3:12-15; 1Thess 5:23; Heb 5:14 *Gr: Heb 6:1; Jude 1:24

complete or, filled, Rom 15:14


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I bear Rom 10:2; 2Cor 8:3

Laodicea Laodicea and Hierapolis were both cities of Phrygia in Asia Minor, between which, and equidistant from each, was situated Colosse. Laodicea was seated near the Lycus, about 63 miles east of Ephesus; and became one of the largest and richest towns in Phrygia, vying in power with the maritime cities. It is now called Eski-hissar, the old castle; and besides the whole surface within the city's wall being strewed with pedestals and fragments, the ruins of an amphitheatre, a magnificent odeum, and other public buildings, attest its former splendour and magnificence. But, when visited by Dr. Chandler, all was silence and solitude; and a fox, first discovered by his ears peeping over a brow, was the only inhabitant of Laodicea. Hierapolis, now Pambouk-Kaiesi, was situated, according to the Itinerary, six miles n of Laodicea; and its ruins are now about a mile and a half in circumference. Col 4:15-16, Col 2:1; Rev 1:11, Rev 3:14-18


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Luke 2Tim 4:11; Phlm 1:24

Demas 2Tim 4:10; Phlm 1:24


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Laodicea Col 4:13

the church Rom 16:5; 1Cor 16:9; Phlm 1:2


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1Thess 5:27


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Archippus Phlm 1:2

Take Lev 10:3; Num 18:5; 2Chr 29:11; Ezek 44:23-24; Acts 20:28; 1Tim 4:16; 1Tim 6:11-14, 1Tim 6:20; 2Tim 4:1-5

the ministry Acts 1:17, Acts 14:23; 1Cor 4:1-2; Eph 4:11; 1Tim 4:6, 1Tim 4:14; 2Tim 1:6, 2Tim 2:2

fulfil 2Tim 4:5


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by 1Cor 16:21; 2Thess 3:17

Remember 2Tim 1:8; Heb 13:3

Grace Rom 16:20, Rom 16:24; 2Cor 13:14; 1Tim 6:21; 2Tim 4:22; Heb 13:25


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