Colossians 1:9-14

Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

Colossians 1:9-14

Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

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Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
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to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
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in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.
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Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
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who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,
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in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Acts 26:18

    to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
    from verse 12

  • Ephesians 5:8

    for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
    from verse 13

  • 1 Peter 2:9

    and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
    from verse 13

  • Ephesians 4:1

    Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
    from verse 10

  • Titus 3:3

    for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;
    from verse 13

  • Titus 3:6

    which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
    from verse 13

  • Ephesians 6:12

    because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
    from verse 13

  • Hebrews 13:21

    make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory--to the ages of the ages! Amen.
    from verse 9

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:12

    for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.
    from verse 10

  • Ephesians 1:7

    in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
    from verse 14

  • 2 Peter 1:2

    Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
    from verse 10

  • 2 Peter 1:3

    As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
    from verse 10
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