Thematic Bible: For the church


Thematic Bible



"Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;




always when offering any prayer on behalf of you all, finding a joy in offering it.


Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.



Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.




because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you cherish towards all God's people,




And now, dear lady, I pray you--writing to you, as I do, not a new command, but the one which we have had from the very beginning--let us love one another.


"Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;




always when offering any prayer on behalf of you all, finding a joy in offering it.


Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.