Prayer
I always thank God, the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, when I pray for you, since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus
and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up
for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the
gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit
and increasing – as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and
understood the grace of God in truth, just as you learned it our beloved fellow
servant. He is faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and has made known to
us your love in the Spirit.
And so, from the day I heard, I have not ceased to
pray for you, asking God that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will
in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of
the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and
increasing in the knowledge of God. May you each be strengthened with all
power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with
joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the
inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of
darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins through the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
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