003:024 For you know that it is from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. Christ is the Master whose bondservants you are.
003:025 The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him;
and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.
004:001 Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves,
knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven.
004:002 Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it
and in your giving of thanks.
004:003 And pray at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the truth concerning Christ for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.
004:004 Then I shall proclaim it fully, as it is my duty to do.
004:005 Behave wisely in relation to the outside world,
buying up your opportunities.
004:006 Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace,
so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.
004:007 Tychicus, our much-loved brother, a trusty assistant and fellow servant with us in the Lord's work, will give you every information about me.
004:008 And for this very purpose I send him to you that you may know
how we are faring; and that he may cheer your hearts.