Colossians 4:18
Good News Translation
With my own hand I write this: Greetings from Paul. Do not forget my chains! May God's grace be with you.

New Revised Standard Version
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

Contemporary English Version
I am signing this letter myself: PAUL. Don't forget that I am in jail. I pray that God will be kind to you.

New American Bible
The greeting is in my own hand, Paul’s. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen.

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1 Corinthians 16:21 The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.

2 Thessalonians 3:17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in every epistle. So I write.

Remember.

2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God.

Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

Grace.

Romans 16:20,24 And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. . . .

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1 Timothy 6:21 Which some promising, have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Hebrews 13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

Colossians 4:1 Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

, that he was not the honoured instrument. It appears from the tenor of this epistle to have been, upon the whole, in a very flourishing state; but some difficulties having arisen among them, they sent Epaphras to Rome, where the apostle was now imprisoned, (ch.

Colossians 4:3 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):

) to acquaint him with the state of their affairs. It is remarkable for a peculiar pathos and ardour, which is generally ascribed to the extraordinary divine consolations enjoyed by the apostle during his sufferings for the sake of Christ. Whoever, says Michaelis, would understand the Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians, must read them together. The one is in most places a commentary on the other; the meaning of single passages in one epistle, which, if considered alone, might be variously interpreted, being determined by the parallel passages in the other epistle.

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17And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. 18The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen.
Cross References
Romans 16:22
I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 16:21
The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.

Philippians 1:7
As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

Colossians 4:3
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):

1 Timothy 6:21
Which some promising, have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

2 Timothy 4:22
The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Titus 3:15
All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in the faith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen.

Hebrews 13:3
Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

Hebrews 13:25
Grace be with you all. Amen.

Colossians 4:17
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