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Colossians 1:8-9 KJV
Colossians · chapter 1 · verses 8–9
8Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. 9For 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;Colossians 1:8-9 · King James Version
Colossians 1:8-9 in context
6Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
7As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9For 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;
10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Commentary
Cross references
- Romans 15:30
- James 3:17
- Philippians 1:9-11
- James 1:5
- Ephesians 1:15-20
- Colossians 4:5
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17
- Hebrews 13:21
- 1 Peter 2:15
Key words (Strong's)
- knowledgeepignōsisprecise and correct knowledge, used in the NT of the knowledge of things ethical and…G1922 →
- declareddēloōto make manifest, to make known by relating, to declare, to give one to understand, to…G1213 →
- desireaiteōto ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, requireG154 →
- filledplēroōto make full, to fill upG4137 →
- wisdomsophiawisdom, broad and full of intelligence used of the knowledge of very diverse matters, the…G4678 →
- causetoutothat , thisG5124 →
- sinceapoof separation, of local separation, after verbs of motion from a placeG575 →
- heardakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →
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Here he proceeds to the body of the epistle, and begins with thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them, though he had no personal acquaintance with them, and knew their state and character only by the reports of others. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-8