Colossians 1:9 Cross References - WPNT

⁹ For this very reason, since the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the real knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

¹⁷ If anyone wants to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

⁵ Well Peter was being held in the prison all right, but the congregation was making earnest prayer to God on his behalf.

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. ⁹ Further, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of His Son is my witness, how without ceasing I always remember you in my prayers, ¹⁰ begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

² Yes, stop conforming to the pattern of this world; rather, be transformed by the renewing of your mind so as to be able to experience the good and satisfying and perfect will of God.

⁵ for in Him you were enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,

⁸ that He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligent design,

¹⁵ Because of this, having heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, ¹⁶ I really don’t stop giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and \up6 3)\up0 what the exceeding greatness of His power into us who are believing, according to the demonstration of the extent of His might ²⁰ which He exercised in the Christ when He raised Him\up6 [S]\up0 from among the dead and seated Him at His\up6 [F]\up0 right, in the heavenly realms,

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its name, ¹⁶ that He\up6 [F]\up0 may grant you, according to the riches of His glory: \up6 1)\up0 to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man; ¹⁷ \up6 2)\up0 Christ to dwell in your hearts through the faith, having been rooted and established in love ¹⁸ so that you may be fully able to grasp (with all saints) what is the breadth and length and depth and height; ¹⁹ and \up6 3)\up0 to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge—so that you may be fulfilled into all the fullness of God.

¹⁰ approving what is pleasing to the Lord.

¹⁷ That is why you must not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

⁶ not only when being watched, to please men, but as slaves of the Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

⁴ in all my prayers for all of you I always pray with joy,

⁹ This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment, ¹⁰ for you to identify the things that really matter; that you may be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

³ We always give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you ⁴ (having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love toward all the saints),

⁶ (the Gospel that has come to you just as also in all the world, where it is producing fruit and growing just as also among you, from the day in which you heard about and truly understood God’s grace),

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing with grace in your heart to the Lord, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.

⁵ Behave wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, greets you; he is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

³ continually remembering before our God and Father your work for the Faith and your labor coming from the Love and your perseverance based on the Hope, our Lord Jesus Christ being their source,

¹⁷ Pray continually!

¹¹ To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

³ I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience like my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers, night and day, ⁴ longing to see you (recalling your tears), that I may be filled with joy;

⁴ I always thank my God as I make mention of you (sg) in my prayers,

³⁶ You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

²¹ equip you for every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

¹⁵ Because such is the will of God, to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good:

² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God.

¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the genuine God, and the Life eternal.