6. which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:
7. even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
8. who has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.
9. For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
10. so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;
11. strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;
12. giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,
13. who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
14. in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
15. who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
16. because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
17. And he is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
18. And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:
19. for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,
20. and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross--by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.