5. because of the expectation that is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
6. which has come to you, as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, as also among you, since the day you heard and knew the favour of Elohim in truth,
7. as you also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a true servant of Messiah on your behalf,
8. who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
9. That is also why we, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you, and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of His desire in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
10. to walk worthily of the Master, pleasing all, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of Elohim,
11. being empowered with all power, according to the might of His esteem, for all endurance and patience with joy,
12. giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit to share in the inheritance of the set-apart ones in the light,
13. who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the reign of the Son of His love,
14. in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,
15. who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim, the first-born of all creation.
16. Because in Him were created all that are in the heavens and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or rulerships or principalities or authorities – all have been created through Him and for Him.
17. And He is before all, and in Him all hold together.