¹³ I can do all things ^(A)through ^[a]Christ who strengthens me.

⁷ as you also learned from ^(A)Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is ^(B)a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, ⁸ who also declared to us your ^(C)love in the Spirit.

Preeminence of Christ

^9 (D)For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask ^(E)that you may be filled with ^(F)the knowledge of His will ^(G)in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; ^10 (H)that you may walk worthy of the Lord, ^(I)fully pleasing Him, ^(J)being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the ^(K)knowledge of God; ^11 (L)strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, ^(M)for all patience and longsuffering ^(N)with joy; ^12 (O)giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of ^(P)the inheritance of the saints in the light.

^19 (A)Go ^[a]therefore and ^(B)make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ^20 (C)teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am ^(D)with you always, even to the end of the age.” ^[b]Amen.

^15 (A)And He said to them, “Go into all the world ^(B)and preach the gospel to every creature. ^16 (C)He who believes and is baptized will be saved; ^(D)but he who does not believe will be condemned.