Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we always pray for you.
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We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I always give thanks to my God for you because of the grace of God that Christ Jesus gave to you.
Ephesians 3:14For this reason I bend my knees to the Father,
Philippians 1:9I am praying this: That your love may abound more and more in knowledge and all understanding.
Colossians 1:9Because of this love, from the day we heard this we have not stopped praying for you. We have been asking that you will be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
1 Thessalonians 1:2We always give thanks to God for all of you, as we mention you in our prayers.
2 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave 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 →