Colossians 1:3
We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
In Context
2To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
4After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;
Ephesians 3:14For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,
Philippians 1:9And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
Colossians 1:9For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
1 Thessalonians 1:2We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;
2 Thessalonians 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort 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 →