which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as {cf15i it doth} in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
For this cause we also, since the day we heard {cf15i it}, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;
and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, {cf15i I say}, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.
if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body-s sake, which is the church;