7. even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,
8. who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
9. For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
10. that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11. strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
12. giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
13. who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
14. in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;
15. who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16. For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.