Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
In Context
4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 3:14For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment
Colossians 1:9Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
1 Thessalonians 1:2We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers,
2 Thessalonians 2:16And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,
Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:2-3
Colossians Colosse was a considerable city of Phrygia, and probably not far from Laodicea and Hierapolis; we find these mentioned together, iv. 13 . It is now buried in ruins, and the memory of it chiefly preserved in this epistle. The design of the epistle is to warn them of the danger of the Jewish zealots, who pressed the necessity of observing the ceremonial law; and to fortify them against the mixture of the Gentile philosophy with their Christian principles. He professes a great satisfaction in their… Read the whole commentary →