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

³ We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, constantly praying for you as we do, ⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you cherish towards all God's people, ⁵ on account of the hope treasured up for you in Heaven. Of this hope you have already heard in the Message of the truth of the Good News. ⁶ For it has reached you, and remains with you, just as it has also spread through the whole world, yielding fruit there and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God, ⁷ as you learned it from Epaphras our dearly-loved fellow servant. He is to you a faithful minister of Christ in our stead, ⁸ and moreover he has informed us of your love, which is inspired by the Spirit.