⁹ And this I pray, that ^(A)your love may abound still more and more in ^(B)real knowledge and all discernment,

⁹ For this reason also, ^(A)since the day we heard of it, ^(B)we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the ^[a](C)knowledge of His will in all spiritual ^(D)wisdom and understanding,

¹⁰ and have ^(A)put on the new self who is being ^[a](B)renewed to a true knowledge ^(C)according to the image of the One who ^(D)created him—