Q. What is to “stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?” (Col. 4:12).
A. Epaphras’ prayer was the echo of the apostle’s, as one may say (see Col. 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. 1:3, &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. 4:12) took its tone from his lesson and from Paul.
Words of Truth 5:37-39.