Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church

1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you,17 have not ceased praying for you and asking God18 to fill19 you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 1:10 so that you may live20 worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects21—bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God, 1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of22 all patience and steadfastness, joyfully 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share23 in the saints’24 inheritance in the light. 1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,25 1:14 in whom we have redemption,26 the forgiveness of sins.