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Greeting, Thanksgiving, and Prayer for Spiritual Strength

Colossians 1:1-14

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Chapter 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and brother Timothy. 2 To the holy and faithful brothers in Colossae in Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you, 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love you have for all the saints 5 because of the hope stored up for you in the heavens, which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel 6 which is present among you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, just as also in you, from the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth. 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8 who also made your love in the Spirit known to us. 9 For this reason, ever since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the knowledge of God, 11 being empowered with all power according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and longsuffering with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who qualified you for the portion of the inheritance of the saints in the light, 13 who rescued us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;