Colossians 1:3-8 - Thanksgiving For The Colossian Believers
3 Every time we pray for you we thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people, 5 because of your hope of what is laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope through the message of the good news 6 which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it, 7 as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow-slave. As a faithful minister of Christ for me 8 he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.