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

³ We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, ⁴ Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, ⁵ For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; ⁶ Which is come to you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: ⁷ As ye also learned from Epaphras our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; ⁸ Who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.