Murdock(i)
3 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, at all times, and pray for you;
4 lo, ever since we heard of your faith in Jesus the Messiah, and of your love to all the saints;
5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of truth of the gospel;
6 which is announced to you, as also to all the world; and which groweth and yieldeth fruits, as it doth also among you from the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in reality:
7 as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of the Messiah;
8 and who hath made known to us your love in the Spirit.
9 Therefore we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray for you; and to ask that ye may be filled with a knowledge of the good pleasure of God, in all wisdom, and in all spiritual understanding;