Colossians 1:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

Since

Colossians 1:3

Romans 1:8

Ephesians 1:15

Do

Philemon 1:4

That ye

Of his

Spiritual

1 John 5:20

Bible References

Since

We always thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you,

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is over all the world.

Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

Do

So Peter was closely guarded in prison, while earnest prayer for him was offered to God by the church.

in all my prayers for you all I always pray with a sense of joy

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

never give up prayer,

In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith,

I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.

I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers;

That ye

in him you have received a wealth of all blessing, full power to speak of your faith and full insight into its meaning,

Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

Of his

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority.

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

verifying what pleases the Lord.

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

Spiritual

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.