For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
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Barnes' Notes
Do not cease to pray for you - Col 1:3. The progress which they had already made, and the love which they had shown, constituted an encouragement for prayer, and a reason why higher blessings still…
Adam Clarke
For this cause - See on Eph 1:15-16 (note), where the same sentiment occurs.
That ye might be filled - Nothing could satisfy the apostle, either for himself or his hearers, but the fullness of the…
The apostle proceeds in these verses to pray for them. He heard that they were good, and he prayed that they might be better. He was constant in this prayer: We do not cease to pray for you. It may be…
Cambridge Bible
thanksgiving passes into prayer that they may will and walk with god
9. For this cause In view of the whole happy report from Colossæ.
we also The "also" means that the news of the loving life at…
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