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,