Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
In Context
4since we heard of your faithfulness in Christ Jesus, and your love for all the saints,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I thank my God always on your account, for the grace of God which is given to you in Christ Jesus;
Ephesians 3:14For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1:9I also pray for this, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,
Colossians 1:9For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
1 Thessalonians 1:2We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
2 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation 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 →