Colossians 1:9-12

⁹For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, haven`t ceased to pray and make requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰to walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; ¹¹strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and perseverance with joy; ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;