Colossians 1:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἡμεῖς, ἀφʼ ἧς ἡμέρας ἠκούσαμεν, οὐ παυόμεθα ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν προσευχόμενοι, καὶ αἰτούμενοι ἵνα πληρωθῆτε τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ ἐν πάσῃ σοφίᾳ καὶ συνέσει πνευματικῇ·

Transliteration

Because of this also we, from which hēmeras we ēkousamen, not pauometha hyper you proseuchomenoi, and aitoumenoi that you might be plērōthēte the epignōsin of the thelēmatos of him in all sofia and synesei pneumatikē;

Grammar Details

• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day, temporal
• *ēkousamen*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st person plural - we heard
• *pauometha*: present, middle, indicative, 1st person plural - we cease
• *hyper*: preposition with genitive - on behalf of
• *proseuchomenoi*: present, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - praying
• *aitoumenoi*: present, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - asking/requesting
• *plērōthēte*: aorist, passive, subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might be filled
• *epignōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - full knowledge, direct object
• *thelēmatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - will, possessive
• *sofia*: dative, feminine, singular - wisdom, sphere/means
• *synesei*: dative, feminine, singular - understanding, sphere/means
• *pneumatikē*: dative, feminine, singular - spiritual, modifier

Word Meanings

• *pauometha*: cease/stop/desist
• *proseuchomenoi*: praying/petitioning in prayer
• *aitoumenoi*: asking/requesting/petitioning
• *plērōthēte*: might be filled/fulfilled/completed
• *epignōsin*: full knowledge/recognition/acknowledgment
• *thelēmatos*: will/desire/purpose
• *sofia*: wisdom/insight/skill
• *synesei*: understanding/intelligence/insight
• *pneumatikē*: spiritual/of the Spirit

Referenced Verses

• Col 4:5 : 5 Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.
• Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.
• 1 Pet 2:15 : 15 For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
• Jas 1:5 : 5 But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 And 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,
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, 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.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 because 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.
• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 constantly pray,
• Phlm 1:4 : 4 Thanks for Philemon’s Love and Faith I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,
• Heb 10:36 : 36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.
• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
• 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
• 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright.
• Ps 143:10 : 10 Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land.
• Eph 1:8 : 8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.
• Eph 1:15-20 : 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, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers. 17 I 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, 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength. 20 This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms
• Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
• Eph 5:17 : 17 For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is.
• Phil 1:4 : 4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you
• 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.
• Col 1:3-4 : 3 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, 4 since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.
• Col 1:6 : 6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
• Eph 6:6 : 6 not like those who do their work only when someone is watching– as people-pleasers– but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.
• 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–
• 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.
• Eph 5:10 : 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
• John 7:17 : 17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
• Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.
• 2 Tim 1:3-4 : 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. 4 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.
• 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 10 and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.
• Acts 12:5 : 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.