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Colossians 4

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

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

2 Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving. CCC

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): CCC

4 That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak. CCC

5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

7 All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you.

8 Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you and comfort your hearts:

9 With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you.

10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you: and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabas, touching whom you have received commandments. If he come unto you, receive him.

11 And Jesus that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision. These only are my helpers, in the kingdom of God: who have been a comfort to me. CCC

12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God. CCC

13 For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis.

14 Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

15 Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the church that is in his house.

16 And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

17 And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

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

This chapter in the Catechism

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Verse 1CCC 1807
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    • CCC 1807 “Justice is the moral virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and neighbor. Justice…”
  2. Verse 2CCC 2638 CCC 2849
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    • CCC 2638 “As in the prayer of petition, every event and need can become an offering of thanksgiving. the letters of St. Paul often…”
    • CCC 2849 “Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter,…”
  3. Verse 3CCC 2632 CCC 2636
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    • CCC 2632 “Christian petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come, in keeping with the teaching of Christ. There…”
    • CCC 2636 “The first Christian communities lived this form of fellowship intensely. Thus the Apostle Paul gives them a share in his ministry of…”
  4. Verse 4CCC 2632 CCC 2636
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    • CCC 2632 “Christian petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come, in keeping with the teaching of Christ. There…”
    • CCC 2636 “The first Christian communities lived this form of fellowship intensely. Thus the Apostle Paul gives them a share in his ministry of…”
  5. Verse 11CCC 307
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    • CCC 307 “To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of "subduing"…”
  6. Verse 12CCC 2629 CCC 2632
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    • CCC 2629 “The vocabulary of supplication in the New Testament is rich in shades of meaning: ask, beseech, plead, invoke, entreat, cry out, even…”
    • CCC 2632 “Christian petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come, in keeping with the teaching of Christ. There…”
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