5aWalk in bwisdom toward those whoare outside, credeeming the time.
6Let your speech always beawith grace, bseasoned with salt, cthat you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Final Greetings
7aTychicus, a beloved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.
8aI am sending him to you for this very purpose, that1 he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
9 with aOnesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which arehappening here.
10aAristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, with bMark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),
11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These aremy only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are of the circumcision; they have proved to be a comfort to me.
12aEpaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always blaboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand cperfect and complete in all the will of God.
13 For I bear him witness that he has a great1 zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.
14aLuke the beloved physician and bDemas greet you.
15 Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and athe church that is in his house.
Closing Exhortations and Blessing
16 Now when athis epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
All my affairs (ta kat eme panta). "All the things relating to me." The accusative case the object of gnwrisei. The same idiom in Acts 25:14; Philippians 1:2.
Tychicus (Tuxikov). Mentioned also in Ephesians 6:21 as the bearer of that Epistle and with the same verb gnwrisei (future active of gnwrizw) and with the same descriptive epithet as here (o agaphtov adelfov kai pistov diakonov en Kuriw, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord) except that here we have also kai sundoulov (and fellow-servant). Abbott suggests that Paul adds sundoulov because he had used it of Epaphras in Colossians 1:7. Perhaps pistov goes with both substantives and means faithful to Paul as well as to Christ.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Colossians 4:7:
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