Colossians 1:3-14
Thanksgiving and Prayer

3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

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4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [which ye have] to all the saints,

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5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

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6 Which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as [it doth] also in you, since the day ye heard [of it], and knew the grace of God in truth:

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7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

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8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

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10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

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12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

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13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:

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14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:

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