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5 because of your hope of what is laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope through the message of the good news
6 which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,
7 as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow-slave. As a faithful minister of Christ for me
8 he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.
9 This is why, ever since I heard of it, I have never ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full wisdom and spiritual insight, with a clear knowledge of His will,
10 so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;