Colossians 1:3-8
3aWe give thanks to God, bthe Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4asince we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the blove which you have 1for call the 2saints, 5because of the ahope blaid up for you in 1heaven, of which you previously cheard in the word of truth, 2the gospel 6which has come to you, just as 1,ain all the world also it is constantly bearing bfruit and 2multiplying, just as it has been doing in you also since the day you cheard and 3understood the grace of God in truth; 7just as you learned it from aEpaphras, our bbeloved fellow slave, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, 8who also informed us of your alove in the Spirit.