Colossians has traditionally been grouped with the so-called “prison” or “captivity” epistles of Paul—Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon—because, like these other epistles, it refers specifically to Paul’s chains or imprisonment or his status as a prisoner (Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20; Phil 1:7, 13, 14, 17; Col 4:3, 10, 18; Phlm 1, 9, 10, 13, 23). In some ways Colossians has been overshadowed by these other letters. Ephesians, for example, overlaps with Colossians