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,

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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”