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Colossians 4 Bible study: A door for the word

Colossians opens and closes with grace (1:2, 4:18). And it gives Epaphras near its start and Tychicus near its end the same words, beloved, faithful and servant, and calls each a fellow servant or fellow bondservant: the same Greek words both times (1:7, 4:7).

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“Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,”
Colossians 4:2 · World English Bible

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“Colossians greets its readers with grace (1:2) and its last lines say, "Grace be with you."”

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Continue steadfastly in prayer

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This chapter begins at 4:2; Favor reads the verse before it with Colossians 3. The letter's last turn opens, "Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving" (4:2) (tap Continue steadfastly, prayer, watching, thanksgiving). The sentence runs on: "praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds" (4:3), "that I may reveal it as I ought to speak." (4:4). So the readers are asked to pray "for us also" (4:3), and the verse says what for: that God may open a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ. These notes give the three verses as they stand, and say no more of the door, the mystery or the bonds than the verses say.

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The Greek word behind it

προσευχήproseuchesay pros-yoo-KHAY

Strong's: "prayer (worship)", and it gives the noun as "from G4336", the verb behind praying in the next verse, "praying together for us also" (4:3). "Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving" (4:2): behind prayer is this noun. Colossians has it twice (in all eight editions TAGNT compares): here, and near the letter's end, where Epaphras is "always striving for you in his prayers" (4:12).

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Colossians 4 Bible study questions

  1. 1"Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving" (4:2). What helps you keep praying, and giving thanks, through an ordinary week?
  2. 2Epaphras is "always striving for you in his prayers" (4:12). Who has prayed for you in a way you still remember?
  3. 3The letter asks to be read in another assembly too (4:16). What from Colossians would you most want to share with another group of believers?

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Last reviewed October 8, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home