Colossians 1:9-12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Prayer for Spiritual Growth
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking(A) that you may be filled with the knowledge(B) of His will(C) in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,[a] 10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work(D) and growing in the knowledge of God.(E) 11 May you be strengthened(F) with all power,(G) according to His glorious(H) might, for all endurance and patience, with joy 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[b] to share in the saints’[c] inheritance in the light.(I)
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Colossians 1:9-12
King James Version
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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