Colossians 4:2
1 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
3 as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
4 Pray that I may declare it clearly, as I should.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
- KJV
- Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
- WEB
- Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
- ASV
- Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
- DARBY
- Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving;
- BLB
- Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it in thanksgiving,
- ÅB
- Vær vedholdende i bønnen, så dere våker i den med takksigelse,
- OTB
- Vær utholdende i bønnen, våk med en holdning av takknemlighet.
- B1930
- Vær vedholdende i bønnen, så I våker i den med takksigelse,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Thessalonians 5:17–18
Pray without ceasing.
Read in contextPhilippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Read in contextEphesians 6:18
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Read in contextRomans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Read in contextMatthew 26:41
“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Read in contextLuke 18:1
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
Read in contextLuke 21:36
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Read in context1 Peter 4:7
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
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