The Prayer for the Colossians

From Colossians 1: 3-20
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- always praying for you,
- having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,
- and of the love that [is] to all the saints,

- because of the hope
- - that is laid up for you in the heavens,
- - which ye heard of before
- - in the word of the truth of the good news,

- which is present to you,
- as also in all the world,
- and is bearing fruit, as also in you,
- from the day in which ye heard,
- and knew the grace of God in truth;

- as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant,
- who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,
- who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

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,

- to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing,
- in every good work being fruitful,
- and increasing to the knowledge of God,
- in all might being made mighty
- - - according to the power of His glory,
- - - to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

Giving thanks to the Father
- who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
- who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness,
- and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,

- in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,
- who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

- because in him were the all things created,
- those in the heavens,
- and those upon the earth,
- those visible,
- and those invisible,
- whether thrones, whether lordships,
- whether principalities, whether authorities;
- all things through him, and for him, have been created,

- and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
- And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly --
- who is a beginning,
- a first-born out of the dead,
- that he might become in all [things] -- himself -- first,

- because in him
- - it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,
- and through him
- - to reconcile the all things to himself
- - having made peace through the blood of his cross
- - through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.