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The practical part of the epistle (3-4) enforces various duties naturally flowing from the doctrines expounded. They are exhorted to mind things that are above ([[Colossians 3]]:1-4), to mortify every evil principle of their nature, and to put on the new man ([[Colossians 3]]:5-14). Many special duties of the Christian life are also insisted upon as the fitting evidence of the Christian character. [[Tychicus]] was the bearer of the letter, as he was also of that to the Ephesians and to [[Philemon]], and he would tell them of the state of the apostle ([[Colossians 4]]:7-9). After friendly greetings (10-14), he bids them interchange this letter with that he had sent to the neighbouring church of [[Laodicea]]. He then closes this brief but striking epistle with his usual autograph salutation. There is a remarkable resemblance between this epistle and that to the [[Epistle to the Ephesians|Ephesians]]. The genuineness of this epistle has not been called in question.

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