Colossians 4:2

Persevere in your tefillos, keeping watch while davening with todot (thanksgiving),

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

In Context

1Adonim, treat your avadim in a manner that is yashar and even-handed, with the da'as that you also have an Adon in Shomayim. + 4:1 Lv 25:43,53

3Davening together also concerning us, that G-d may open for us a delet for the Besuras HaGeulah, to speak the raz of Moshiach, on account of which also I have been bound with sharsherot (chains).

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:12And it came to pass, as she continued davening before Hashem, that Eli observed her mouth.

Job 15:4Yea, thou makest void yireh [Elohim], 1 and doth diminish si'akh (meditation) before El. 1

Psalms 55:16Let mavet seize upon them, 1 and let them go down chayyim into Sheol; 1 for ra'ot (evils) are in their dwellings, and among them. 1

Matthew 26:41Stay awake and offer tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon. + 26:41 Mt 6:13 Indeed the ruach is willing but the basar is weak.

Luke 18:1Now he was speaking a mashal to them about how it is necessary always for them to daven and not to lose chozek, + 18:1 Isa 40:31

Romans 12:12Have simcha in tikvah. Have savlanut in tzoros. Keep davening tefillos.

Matthew Henry on Colossians 4:2

Relative Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. The apostle proceeds with the duty of masters to their servants, which might have been joined to the foregoing chapter, and is a part of that discourse. Here observe, 1. Justice is required of them: Give unto your servants that which is just and equal ( v. 1 ), not only strict justice, but equity and kindness. Be faithful to your promises to them, and perform your agreements;… Read the whole commentary →

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