Colossians 1:9

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

⁸ [who] also made clear to us your love in the Spirit. ⁹ Because of this also we, from the day we heard about [it], did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled [with] the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, ¹⁰ so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For This Cause

Knowledge of God

Pray for

Will of God

Ephesians 5:17

Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, [and] spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,

Colossians 4:5

Live with wisdom toward those outside, making the most of the time.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

for which [purpose] we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power,

James 1:5

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

1 Samuel 12:23

Also, as for me, far be it from me {that I should sin} against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the good and righteous way.

Psalm 119:99

I have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies [are] my meditation.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you [are] my God; your Spirit [is] good. Lead me onto level ground.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

Acts 12:5

Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him.

Romans 1:8-10

First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 1:5

that in everything you were made rich in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

Ephesians 1:8

that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,

Ephesians 1:15-20

Because of this I also, hearing of {your faith} in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

Ephesians 3:14-19

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,

Ephesians 5:10

trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 6:6

not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

Philippians 1:4

always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy,

Philippians 1:9-11

And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Colossians 1:3-4

We give thanks always to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ [when we] pray for you,

Colossians 1:6

that has come to you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day you heard about and understood the grace of God in truth,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is [one] of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray constantly,

2 Timothy 1:3-4

{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,

1 Peter 2:15

For the will of God is as follows: [by] doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away, and its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains {forever}.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.