⁷ as you also learned from ^(A)Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is ^(B)a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, ⁸ who also declared to us your ^(C)love in the Spirit.

Preeminence of Christ

^9 (D)For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask ^(E)that you may be filled with ^(F)the knowledge of His will ^(G)in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;