7. just as you learned it from Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus.
8. And he has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.
9. Then, too, from the day when we first heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and requesting that you be filled with the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
10. so that you may walk in a manner worthy of God, being pleasing in all things, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
11. being strengthened in every virtue, in accord with the power of his glory, with all patience and longsuffering, with joy,
12. giving thanks to God the Father, who has made us worthy to have a share in the portion of the saints, in the light.
13. For he has rescued us from the power of darkness, and he has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,
14. in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins.
15. He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.
16. For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in him.
17. And he is before all, and in him all things continue.
18. And he is the head of his body, the Church. He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that in all things he may hold primacy.
19. For the Father is well-pleased that all fullness reside in him,