Colossians 1:3-8 - Thanksgiving For The Colossian Believers

³ Whenever we pray, we never fail to thank God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, about you, ⁴ Now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his People, ⁵ On account of the hope which awaits its fulfillment in Heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true Message of the Good News which reached you-- ⁶ Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is. ⁷ It is just what you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow- servant, who, as a minister of the Christ, faithfully represents us, ⁸ And who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.