Colossians 1:9

New English Translation

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Cross References

Psalm 119:99

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

1 Corinthians 1:5

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge –

Ephesians 1:8

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

Ephesians 5:10

trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is.

Ephesians 6:6

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching – as people-pleasers – but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

Philippians 1:4

I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

Colossians 1:6

that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Colossians 4:5

Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

constantly pray,

2 Thessalonians 1:11

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

Philemon 1:4

I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

Philemon 1:6

I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

James 1:5

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

1 Peter 2:15

For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

1 Peter 4:2

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

1 Samuel 12:23

As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright.