Colossians 1:9

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

⁸ and he has told us about your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

For This Cause

Knowledge of God

Pray for

Will of God

Ephesians 5:17

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Colossians 3:16

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Colossians 4:5

Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,

James 1:5

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

1 Samuel 12:23

“As for me, I vow that I will not sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. I will teach you the good and right way.

Psalm 119:99

I have more insight than all my teachers
because Your decrees are my meditation.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do Your will,
for You are my God.
May Your gracious Spirit
lead me on level ground.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was being made earnestly to God for him by the church.

Romans 1:8-10

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 1:5

that by Him you were enriched in everything—in all speech and all knowledge.

Ephesians 1:8

that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

Ephesians 1:15-20

This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

Ephesians 3:14-19

For this reason I kneel before the Father

Ephesians 5:10

discerning what is pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 6:6

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Philippians 1:4

always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer,

Philippians 1:9-11

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

Colossians 1:3-4

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

Colossians 1:6

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray constantly.

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

1 Peter 2:15

For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

1 John 2:17

And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.