Colossians 4:12

Narrator: Ivona Gentwo
Colossians 4:12  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 7
A. Epaphras’ prayer was the echo of the apostle’s, as one may say (see Col. 1:99For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; (Colossians 1:9), and 2:1-3). Paul had never seen the Colossians, but had heard of them through Epaphras. He could thank God as to what he had heard of them (Col. 1:33We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, (Colossians 1:3), &c.), but he could agonize in prayer for them, that they might know more of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; thus to walk worthy of the Lord. That they might know, too, the mystery of Christ and the Church; or, as he terms it here, “The mystery of God, wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Conversion only was not sufficient in Paul’s mind, and Epaphras had learned this, and his prayer (Col. 4:1212Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. (Colossians 4:12)) took its tone from his lesson and from Paul.
Words of Truth 5:37-39.