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

Whenever we pray, we never fail to thank God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, about you,

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

And therefore I, ever since I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your confidence in all Christ's People,

Do

So Peter was kept in prison, but meanwhile the prayers of the Church were being earnestly offered to God on his behalf.

Always, in every prayer that I offer for you all--my prayers are full of joy--

Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Never cease to pray;

With this in view, our constant prayer for you is that our God may count you worthy of the Call that you have received, and by his power make perfect your delight in all goodness and the efforts that have resulted from your faith.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I never fail to do, in my prayers--night and day alike,

I always mention you in my prayers and thank God for you,

That ye

For through union with him you were enriched in every way-in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the Truth;

And therefore I, ever since I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your confidence in all Christ's People,

For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father--

And what I pray for is this--that your love may grow yet stronger and stronger, with increasing knowledge and all discernment,

Of his

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.

If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.

Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Always trying to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.

Not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please men, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.

You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.

may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.

For God's will is this--that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but he who does God's will remains for ever.

Spiritual

We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.