that has come to you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day you heard about and understood the grace of God in truth, just as you learned it[a] from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,[b] who also made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Colossians 1:7 Some manuscripts have “on your behalf”