Colossians 4:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. [He is] always striving for you earnestly in his prayers, [pleading] that you may [as persons of ripe character and clear conviction] stand firm and mature [in spiritual growth], convinced and fully assured in everything willed by God. American Standard Version (1901) Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. Common English Bible Epaphras, who is one of you, says hello. He’s a slave of Christ Jesus who always wrestles for you in prayers so that you will stand firm and be fully mature and complete in the entire will of God. Catholic Public Domain Version Epaphras greets you, who is from among you, a servant of Christ Jesus, ever solicitous for you in prayer, so that you may stand, perfect and complete, in the entire will of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God. |
Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us,
Being in anguish, he prayed more fervently, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him.
My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf.
Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice. Become mature, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
My children, I am again suffering labour pains for you until Christ is formed in you.
But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him #– #
We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
I labour for this, striving with his strength that works powerfully in me.
You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
He is coming with Onesimus, a faithful and dearly loved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings, and so do
But solid food is for the mature #– #for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.
During his earthly life, he offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. , Greetings.
And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those who have received a faith equal to ours through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,