We give thanks to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;

which has come to you, as in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as it is also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout all the world.

making request if, by any means now at last, I may prosper by the will of God to come to you.

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me to sin against Jehovah to cease to pray for you; for I have taught you the good and the right way.

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy

remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

pray without ceasing,

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,

greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,

I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,

that you were enriched in everything in Him in all utterance and all knowledge,

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full true knowledge of Him,

and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, who believe according to the working of His mighty power

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height;

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full true knowledge and all discernment,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand complete and full-grown in all the will of God;

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me into the land of uprightness.

If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak out of Myself.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your Testimonies are my meditation.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding,

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, fair, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.