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

³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always in our prayers for you: ⁴ (having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and your love 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 truth, that is the gospel; ⁶ which is come unto you, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth. ⁷ As ye also learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you; ⁸ who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.