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even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your[a] behalf, who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

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,

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  1. 1:7 NU reads our

You learned it from Epaphras,(A) our dear fellow servant,[a] who is a faithful minister(B) of Christ on our[b] behalf, and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.(C)

For this reason, since the day we heard about you,(D) we have not stopped praying for you.(E) We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will(F) through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[c](G)

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  1. Colossians 1:7 Or slave
  2. Colossians 1:7 Some manuscripts your
  3. Colossians 1:9 Or all spiritual wisdom and understanding