Colossians 1:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Church We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

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  • 1 Thess 1:2 : 2 Thanksgiving for Response to the Gospel We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,
  • Eph 1:15 : 15 Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
  • Rom 1:8-9 : 8 Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:9 : 9 Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
  • 1 Thess 3:10-13 : 10 We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith. 11 Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you, 13 so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • 2 Thess 2:16-17 : 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
  • Eph 3:14-19 : 14 Prayer for Strengthened Love For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. 16 I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 17 that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, 18 you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you will be filled up to all the fullness of God.
  • Phil 1:3-5 : 3 Prayer for the Church I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you 5 because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight 10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

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    1¶ Salutation From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you!

    2Thanksgiving for Response to the Gospel We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,

    3because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Col 1:1-2
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    1¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

    2to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!

  • Phlm 1:3-5
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    3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    4Thanks for Philemon’s Love and Faith I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

    5because I hear of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

  • Eph 1:15-17
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    15Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

    16I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

    17I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

  • Phil 1:2-4
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    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    3Prayer for the Church I thank my God every time I remember you.

    4I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

  • 1 Cor 1:3-4
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    3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    4Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

  • Col 1:4
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    4since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

  • Eph 5:20
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    20always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 2 Thess 1:1-3
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    1¶ Salutation From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    2Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    3Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

  • Eph 1:1-3
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    1¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints[in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.

    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    3Spiritual Blessings in Christ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

  • 1 Thess 3:9-11
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    9For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

    10We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

    11Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

  • Gal 1:3
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    3Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

    12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 1:11
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    11as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many.

  • 2 Cor 1:2-3
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    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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    17And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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    12giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

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    14Prayer for Strengthened Love For this reason I kneel before the Father,

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    3Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

  • Rom 1:8-9
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    8Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

    9For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

  • Col 4:12
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    12Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

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    2Exhortation to Pray for the Success of Paul’s Mission Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

    3At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

  • Col 1:7-9
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    7You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave– a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf–

    8who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

    9Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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    3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

  • Phlm 1:23
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    23Concluding Greetings Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you.

  • Col 3:15
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    15Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart(for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.

  • 2 Thess 2:16
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    16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

  • 2 Cor 9:14
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    14And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.