Colossians 1:10

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

⁹ Because of this also we, from the day we heard about [it], 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}, 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,

All Things

Bear Fruit

Do Good

Every Good Work

Good Deeds

Good Works

Knowledge of God

Pray for

Ephesians 4:1

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

Micah 4:5

For all the nations walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God, forever and ever.

Romans 6:4

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

Philippians 1:11

having been filled [with the] fruit of righteousness which [comes] through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

John 15:8

My Father is glorified by this: that you bear much fruit, and prove to be my disciples.

Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, {the glorious Father}, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him

Ephesians 4:13

until we all reach the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to a measure of the maturity of the fullness of Christ,

Ephesians 5:2

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

Ephesians 5:10

trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:15

Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,

Philippians 1:27

Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Philippians 4:18

But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

Colossians 2:6

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him,

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Colossians 4:5

Live with wisdom toward those outside, making the most of the time.

1 Thessalonians 2:12

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

Titus 3:1

Remind them to be subject to the rulers [and] to the authorities, to obey, to be prepared for every good work,

Titus 3:14

But also our [people] must learn to engage in good deeds for necessary needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up, so that he did not experience death, and he was not found, because God took him up. For before his removal, he had been approved {as having been pleasing} to God.

Hebrews 13:16

And do not neglect doing good and generosity, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.

2 Peter 1:2-3

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

2 Peter 1:8

For [if] these [things] are yours and are increasing, this does not make [you] useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of a man are pleasing [to] Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him.

Isaiah 53:11

From the trouble of his life he will see; he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, [the] righteous [one], my servant, shall declare many righteous, and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll until [the] time of [the] end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase."

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Romans 4:12

and the father {of those who are circumcised} to those who are not only from the circumcision, but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham {which he had while uncircumcised}.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," [is the one] who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 9:8

And God is able to cause all grace to abound to you, so that in everything at all times, [because you] have enough of everything, you may overflow in every good work.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.

2 Timothy 2:4

No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].