1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, 1 have not ceased praying for you and asking God 2 to fill 3 you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 1:10 so that you may live 4 worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects 5 – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God, 1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of 6 all patience and steadfastness, joyfully 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share 7 in the saints’ 8 inheritance in the light. 1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, 9 1:14 in whom we have redemption, 10 the forgiveness of sins.
1:15 11 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 12 over all creation, 13