Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
King James Version
In Context
4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 3:14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Colossians 1:9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might 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 our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting 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 →