Fulfill [πληροφόρησον] your ministry. (4:5) But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed [πληροφορηθῇ] and all the Gentiles might hear it. (4:17) Paul gives a similar command to a lesser-known disciple named Archippus. In Colossians 4:17, he writes, “And say to Archippus, ‘See that you fulfill [πληροῖς] the ministry that you have received in the Lord.’ ”7 Archippus is mentioned elsewhere in the NT only once in Philemon 2, where Paul names