The Messiah is Above All

⁹ For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God’s^[a] will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰ so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him^[b] as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God. ¹¹ You are being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, so that you might patiently endure everything with joy ¹² and might thank the Father, who has enabled us^[c] to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. ¹³ God^[d] has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves, ¹⁴ through whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.