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For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, 14 in whom we have our redemption,[a] the forgiveness of our sins.

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  1. 1:14 TR adds “through his blood,”

Prayer for Maturity Based on Christ’s Preeminence

Because of this also we, from the day we heard about it,[a] did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, 10 so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him in all respects[b], bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God, 11 enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us[c] to the kingdom of the Son he loves[d], 14 in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:9 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Colossians 1:10 Literally “to all pleasing”
  3. Colossians 1:13 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Colossians 1:13 Literally “of his love”