6. that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
7. You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave – a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf –
8. who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9. For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
10. so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
11. being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
12. giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
13. He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,