Colossians 1:9-14
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make [[a]special] request for you, [asking] that you may be filled with the [b]full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [[c]in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God] and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things—
10 That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and [d]desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, [e]acquaintance, and recognition].
11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,
12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the [f]portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.
13 [The Father] has delivered and [g]drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son [h]of His love,
14 In Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of our sins.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 1:9 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:9 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:9 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
- Colossians 1:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:10 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
- Colossians 1:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- Colossians 1:13 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- Colossians 1:13 Literal translation.
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