Study Desk

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have renewed your concern for me, for whom also you were thinking, but you had no opportunity to express it.

Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

because even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent for my need.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek for the profit that increases to your account.

We give thanks always to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you,

since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, which you have heard about beforehand in the word of truth, the gospel,

Because of this also we, from the day we heard about it, did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy,

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,

because all things in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things were created through him and for him,

because he was well pleased for all the fullness to dwell in him,

of which I became a minister, according to God's stewardship which was given to me for you, to complete the word of God,

for which purpose also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and all those who have not seen my face in person,

for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

which things are all meant for destruction by consuming according to human commandments and teachings,

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

and everything whatever you do in word or in deed, giving thanks for all things in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him.