Colossians 1:10

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things; ¹⁰ so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God. ¹¹ Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully enduring all things with patience and long-suffering;

All Things

Bear Fruit

Do Good

Every Good Work

Good Deeds

Good Works

Knowledge of God

Pray for

Ephesians 4:1

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

Romans 6:4

Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.

Philippians 1:11

being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ-- to the glory and praise of God.

John 15:8

By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.

Ephesians 1:17

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

Ephesians 4:13

till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.

Ephesians 5:2

And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

Ephesians 5:10

and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:15

Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.

Philippians 1:27

Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.

Philippians 4:18

I have enough of everything--and more than enough. My wants are fully satisfied now that I have received from the hands of Epaphroditus the generous gifts which you sent me--they are a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, truly pleasing to God.

Colossians 2:6

As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;

Colossians 2:19

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

Colossians 3:20

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

Colossians 4:5

Behave wisely in relation to the outside world, buying up your opportunities.

1 Thessalonians 2:12

and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.

Titus 3:1

Remind people that they must submit to the rulers who are in authority over them; that they must obey the magistrates, be prepared for every right action,

Titus 3:14

And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives.

Hebrews 11:5

Through faith Enoch was taken from the earth so that he did not see death, and he could not be found, because God had taken him; for before he was taken we have evidence that he truly pleased God.

Hebrews 13:16

And do not forget to be kind and liberal; for with sacrifices of that sort God is greatly pleased.

Hebrews 13:21

fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

2 Peter 1:2-3

May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

2 Peter 1:8

If these things exist in you, and continually increase, they prevent your being either idle or unfruitful in advancing towards a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:18

But be always growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be all glory, both now and to the day of Eternity!

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One--that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the Life of the Ages.

John 15:16

It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

John 17:3

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

Romans 4:12

and the forefather of the circumcised, namely of those who not merely are circumcised, but also walk in the steps of the faith which our forefather Abraham had while he was as yet uncircumcised.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, "Out of darkness let light shine," is He who has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 9:8

And God is able to bestow every blessing on you in abundance, so that richly enjoying all sufficiency at all times, you may have ample means for all good works.

Galatians 5:22-23

The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

2 Timothy 2:4

Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him.