Study Desk

We are giving thanks unto God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always, for you, offering prayer, -

Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have unto all the saints, -

Because of the hope that is lying by for you in the heavens, of which ye heard before, in the word of the truth of the glad-message,

When it presented itself unto you; even as, in all the world also, it is bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day when ye heard, and came personally to know the favour of God in truth,

Even as ye learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is faithful in our behalf, as a minister of the Christ,

Who also hath made evident unto us your love in spirit.