Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, at all times, and pray for you;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
In Context
4lo, ever since we heard of your faith in Jesus the Messiah, and of your love to all the saints;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:4I thank my God at all times on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given to you in Jesus Messiah;
Ephesians 3:14And I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
Philippians 1:9And this I pray for, that your love may still increase and abound, in knowledge, and In all spiritual understanding:
Colossians 1:9Therefore we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray for you; and to ask that ye may be filled with a knowledge of the good pleasure of God, in all wisdom, and in all spiritual understanding;
1 Thessalonians 1:2We give thanks to God at all times, on account of you all, and remember you continually in our prayers:
2 Thessalonians 2:16And may our Lord Jesus the Messiah himself, and God our Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation and a good hope through his 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 →