We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and
of the love you have for all God’s people—the faith and love that spring from
the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in
the true message of the gospel that has
come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing
throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day
you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. You learned it from Epaphras,
our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and
who also told us of your love in the Spirit. For this reason, since the day we
heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to
fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and
understanding that the Spirit gives, so
that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being
strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may
have great endurance and patience, and
giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the
inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us
from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he
loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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