5 because of the hope awhich is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
6 which has come to you, aas ithas also in all the world, and bis bringing forth fruit, as itis also among you since the day you heard and knew cthe grace of God in truth;
7 as you also learned from aEpaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is ba faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,
8 who also declared to us your alove in the Spirit.
Preeminence of Christ
9aFor this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask bthat you may be filled with cthe knowledge of His will din all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10athat you may walk worthy of the Lord, bfully pleasing Him,cbeing fruitful in every good work and increasing in the dknowledge of God;
11astrengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, bfor all patience and longsuffering cwith joy;
Epaphras was either the man who raised up the Colossian church or he was the its pastor. The feeling of the commentators is that he was probably the man who was used to start the church, and that the pastor at the time the epistle was written was Tychicus. Epaphras may have also still been in the area, in the background.
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