Colossians 1:9
Good News Translation
For this reason we have always prayed for you, ever since we heard about you. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will, with all the wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives.

New Revised Standard Version
For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Contemporary English Version
We have not stopped praying for you since the first day we heard about you. In fact, we always pray that God will show you everything he wants you to do and that you may have all the wisdom and understanding his Spirit gives.

New American Bible
Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

since.

Colossians 1:3,4,6 Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you. . . .

Romans 1:8-10 First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: because your faith is spoken of in the whole world. . . .

Ephesians 1:15,16 Wherefore, I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus and of your love towards all the saints, . . .

do.

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.

Philippians 1:4 Always in all my prayers making supplication for you all with joy:

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

2 Thessalonians 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith in power:

2 Timothy 1:3,4 I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I have a remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day. . . .

Philemon 1:4 I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my prayers.

that ye.

1 Corinthians 1:5 That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and in all knowledge;

Ephesians 1:15-20 Wherefore, I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus and of your love towards all the saints, . . .

Ephesians 3:14-19 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, . . .

Philippians 1:9-11 And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding: . . .

of his.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

Psalm 143:10 Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land:

John 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Ephesians 5:10,17 Proving what is well pleasing to God. . . .

Ephesians 6:6 Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Hebrews 10:36 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1 Peter 4:2 That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

wisdom.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

Colossians 4:5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

Psalm 119:99 I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.

Ephesians 1:8 Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence,

James 1:5 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

spiritual.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

Context
Thanksgiving and Prayer
8Who also hath manifested your love in the spirit. 9Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding: 10That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:23
And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Ephesians 1:16
Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in my prayers,

Ephesians 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him:

Ephesians 5:17
Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God.

Philippians 1:9
And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding:

Colossians 1:4
Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have towards all the saints.

2 Thessalonians 1:11
Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith in power:

Philemon 1:6
That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:8
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