For this reason we also, (A)since the day we heard about it, (B)have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the [a](C)knowledge of His will in all spiritual (D)wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you will (E)walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, [b](F)to please Him in all respects, (G)bearing fruit in every good work and [c]increasing in the [d]knowledge of God; 11 (H)strengthened with all power, according to [e]His glorious might, [f]for the attaining of all perseverance and [g]patience; (I)joyously 12 giving thanks to (J)the Father, who has qualified us [h]to share in (K)the inheritance of the [i]saints in (L)light.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:9 Or real knowledge
  2. Colossians 1:10 Lit unto all pleasing
  3. Colossians 1:10 Or growing by the knowledge
  4. Colossians 1:10 Or real knowledge
  5. Colossians 1:11 Lit the might of His glory
  6. Colossians 1:11 Lit unto all
  7. Colossians 1:11 Or patience with joy
  8. Colossians 1:12 Lit unto the portion of
  9. Colossians 1:12 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people

16 that He would grant you, according to (A)the riches of His glory, to be (B)strengthened with power through His Spirit in (C)the inner [a]self, 17 so that (D)Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being (E)rooted and (F)grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with (G)all the [b]saints what is (H)the width and length and height and depth, 19 and to know (I)the love of Christ which (J)surpasses knowledge, that you may be (K)filled to all the (L)fullness of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 3:16 Lit person
  2. Ephesians 3:18 See note v 8

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