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Col. 4 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII

Let the faithful person, whether man or woman, treat servants kindly, as we have ordained in the foregoing books, and have taught in our epistles.[168]

Col. 4:1 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

Masters, render to your servants justice and equity; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: but Christ is all, and in all."[98]

Col. 4:1 - NIV, NAB - in Didache

10 Thou shalt not enjoin aught in thy bitterness upon thy bondman or maidservant, who hope in the same God, lest ever they shall fear not God who is over both;[51]

Col. 4:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book IV

Let him consider wherein they are equal, even as he is a man. And let him that has a believing master[31]

Col. 4:2 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."[205]

Col. 4:2 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

"Continue in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving."[116]

Col. 4:2 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Fasting

, at which they entered the temple: why should we not understand that, with absolutely perfect indifference, we must pray[79]

Col. 4:2 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle VII

Let us therefore strike off and break away from the bonds of sleep, and pray with urgency and watchfulness, as the Apostle Paul bids us, saying, "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same."[15]

Col. 4:2 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

In the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians: "Be instant in prayer, and watch therein."[824]

Col. 4:3 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

And he still more clearly reveals that knowledge belongs not to all, by adding: "Praying at the same time for you, that God would open to us a door to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am bound; that I may make it known as I ought to speak."[117]

Col. 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II

In addition, it will in my opinion form an appropriate sequel to defend those tenets, on account of which the Greeks assail us, making use of a few Scriptures, if perchance the Jew also may listen[3]

Col. 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book III

and to the wish of Paul, who taught that "we ought to know how to answer every man; "[109]

Col. 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VI

Accordingly, we do not say to each of our hearers, "Believe, first of all, that He whom I introduce to thee is the Son of God; "but we put the Gospel before each one, as his character and disposition may fit him to receive it, inasmuch as we have learned to know "how we ought to answer every man."[52]

Col. 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Theonas to Lucianus

; let them mark it and admire it, and by reason thereof praise Jesus Christ our Lord in you. Let your conversation always be temperate and modest, and seasoned with religion as with salt.[19]

Col. 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

And again it says: "Let your speech be seasoned with grace. For it is required of a man to know how to give an answer to every one in season."[106]

Col. 4:14 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

From this he shows that he was always attached to and inseparable from him. And again he says, in the Epistle to the Colossians: "Luke, the beloved physician, greets you."[239]

Col. 4:15 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch

Salute thou also Mary my daughter, distinguished both for gravity and erudition, as also "the Church which is in her house."[31]

Col. 4:16 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

Of Crete, Titus. Of Athens, Dionysius. Of Tripoli in Phoenicia, Marathones. Of Laodicea in Phrygia, Archippus.[197]

Col. 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians

My soul be for yours, when I attain to Jesus. Remember my bonds.[32]

Col. 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians

I have sent you this letter through Euphanius the reader, a man honoured of God, and very faithful, happening to meet with him at Rhegium, just as he was going on board ship. Remember my bonds[58]

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