These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Colossians 4
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
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Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves, knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven.
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Ephesians 6:8-20 Matthew 24:48-51 Leviticus 25:39-43 Luke 16:1-13 Malachi 3:5 Jeremiah 34:9-17 James 2:13 Revelation 19:16 Leviticus 19:13 Revelation 17:14 Luke 19:15 James 5:4 Deuteronomy 15:12-15 Nehemiah 5:5-13 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Deuteronomy 24:14-15 Isaiah 58:5-9 Job 24:11-12 Job 31:13-15 Matthew 23:8-9 Isaiah 58:3 - 2 Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks.
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And pray at the same time for us also, that may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the concerning for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.
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Ephesians 6:19-20 Philippians 1:7 Acts 14:27 Revelation 3:7-8 Philemon 1:22 Colossians 2:2-3 Hebrews 13:18-19 Romans 15:30-32 1 Thessalonians 5:25 1 Corinthians 4:1 2 Timothy 1:16 Colossians 1:26 Ephesians 4:1 Matthew 13:11 2 Timothy 2:9 Ephesians 3:1 Philippians 1:19 2 Corinthians 2:12 Philippians 1:13-14 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2 1 Corinthians 16:9 - 4 Then I shall proclaim it fully, as it is my duty to do.
- 5 Behave wisely in relation to the outside world, buying up your opportunities.
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Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of , so that you may how to give every man a fitting answer.
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1 Peter 3:15 Ephesians 4:29 Mark 9:50 Colossians 3:16 Matthew 5:13 Proverbs 15:7 Psalm 119:46 Ecclesiastes 10:12 Proverbs 25:11-12 Proverbs 15:4 Psalm 78:3-4 1 Chronicles 16:24 Proverbs 10:21 Psalm 37:30-31 2 Kings 2:20-22 Psalm 45:2 Leviticus 2:13 Proverbs 22:17-18 Deuteronomy 6:6-7 Proverbs 16:21-24 Deuteronomy 11:19 Proverbs 26:4-5 Psalm 119:13 Psalm 105:2 Psalm 71:15-18 Psalm 71:23-24 Psalm 66:16 Psalm 40:9-10 Matthew 12:34-35 Malachi 3:16-18 Luke 20:20-40 Luke 4:22 - 7 Tychicus, our much-loved brother, a trusty assistant and fellow with us in the Lord’s work, will give you every information about me.
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And for this very purpose I send him to you that you may how we are faring; and that he may cheer your hearts.
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And with him I send our dear and trusty brother Onesimus, who is one of yourselves. They will inform you of everything here.
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- 10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner sends greeting to you, and so does Barnabas’s cousin Mark. You have received instructions as to him; if he comes to you, give him a welcome.
- 11 , called Justus, also sends greeting. These three are Hebrew converts. They alone among such have worked loyally with me for the Kingdom of —they are men who have been a comfort to me.
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Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of the , sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm—Messiahians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is Elohim’s will.
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Romans 15:30 Colossians 1:7 Philemon 1:23 Matthew 5:48 1 Corinthians 2:6 Colossians 1:28 2 Corinthians 13:11 Luke 22:44 James 1:1 Hebrews 5:14 1 Thessalonians 5:23 James 5:16 John 12:26 1 Corinthians 14:20 Jude 1:24 2 Peter 1:1 Colossians 1:22 Colossians 1:9 Galatians 4:19 Philippians 3:12-15 Colossians 2:1-23 Colossians 4:1-2 Hebrews 5:7 Galatians 1:10 Romans 15:14 -
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For I can bear witness to the deep interest he takes in you and in the brethren at Laodicea and in those at Hierapolis.
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Luke, the dearly-loved physician, salutes you, and so does Demas.
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Messiahian greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, especially to Nymphas, and to the Church that meets at their house.
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And when this Letter has been read among you, let it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans, and you in turn must read the one I am sending to Laodicea.
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- 17 And tell Archippus to discharge carefully the duties devolving upon him as a of the Lord.
- 18 I add with my own hand this final greeting. Be mindful of me in my imprisonment. Grace be with you.