Thanksgiving and Prayer

³fWe always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, ⁴since we heard of gyour faith in Christ Jesus and of gthe love that you have for all the saints, ⁵because of hthe hope ilaid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in jthe word of the truth, the gospel, ⁶which has come to you, as indeed kin the whole world it is lbearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you mheard it and understood nthe grace of God in truth, ⁷just as you learned it from oEpaphras our beloved pfellow servant.2 He is pa faithful minister of Christ on your3 behalf ⁸and has made known to us your qlove in the Spirit.

⁹And so, rfrom the day we heard, swe have not ceased to pray for you, asking that tyou may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all uspiritual wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰so as vto walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, wfully pleasing to him: xbearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; ¹¹ybeing strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for zall endurance and patience awith joy; ¹²bgiving thanks4 to the Father, who has qualified you5 to share in cthe inheritance of the saints in light. ¹³He dhas delivered us from ethe domain of darkness and transferred us to fthe kingdom of ghis beloved Son, ¹⁴hin whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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