Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Noyes Bible
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 faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I ever thank my God for you, on account of the grace of God bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus;
Ephesians 3:14For this cause I bend my knees to the Father,
Philippians 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all discernment;
Colossians 1:9On this account we also, from the day we heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that ye 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 our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, our Father, who loved us, and gave 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 →