Colossians 1:3–14

³We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you, ⁴having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that is to all the saints, ⁵because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news, ⁶which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth; ⁷as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ, ⁸who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

⁹Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, ¹¹in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

¹²Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light, ¹³who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love, ¹⁴in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,