Colossians 1:3 Cross References

Colossians 1:3

3: We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Let me say first of all that your faith in God is becoming known throughout the world. How I thank God through Jesus Christ for each one of you.
God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by telling others the Good News about his Son.

So we have continued praying for you ever since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.

Timothy, I thank God for you. He is the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.

I can never stop thanking God for all the generous gifts he has given you, now that you belong to Christ Jesus.

Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.
I always pray for you, and I make my requests with a heart full of joy
because you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now.

Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for Christians everywhere,

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

For he has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and he has brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.

May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who loved us and in his special favor gave us everlasting comfort and good hope,
comfort your hearts and give you strength in every good thing you do and say.

Night and day we pray earnestly for you, asking God to let us see you again to fill up anything that may still be missing in your faith.
May God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesus make it possible for us to come to you very soon.
And may the Lord make your love grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love overflows toward you.
As a result, Christ will make your hearts strong, blameless, and holy when you stand before God our Father on that day when our Lord Jesus comes with all those who belong to him.

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,
the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.
And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love.
And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.

I pray that your love for each other will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in your knowledge and understanding.
For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until Christ returns.
May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation--those good things that are produced in your life by Jesus Christ--for this will bring much glory and praise to God.

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