MNT(i)
3 Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
4 (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)
5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel.
6 And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,
7 as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf,
8 and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit.
9 For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;