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3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 when we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love which is towards all the saints;
5 because of the hope being laid up for you in the heavens, in which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
6 which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;
7 just as also you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9 On account of this we also, since the day we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;