For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of this will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance an patience, and joyfully

giving thanks to the Father, who had qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

For he has rescued us form the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,