{"id":2103,"date":"2013-01-01T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:00:27","slug":"colossians-41-4-prayer-for-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 4:1-4 \u2014 Prayer for Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>you also (v.1) \u2014 you, as well as your slaves<\/h3>\n<h3>continue (v.2) \u2014 with the sense of &#8220;being strong&#8221; \u2014 persevere<\/h3>\n<h3>being vigilant (v.2) = be spiritually awake, give strict attention to<\/h3>\n<h3>in chains (v.3) \u2014 Paul&#8217;s preaching of the mystery led to his persecution which led to his arrest and imprisonment<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. 2\u00a0Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; 3\u00a0meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}