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11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,

12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the [a]portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.

13 [The Father] has delivered and [b]drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son [c]of His love,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Colossians 1:13 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Colossians 1:13 Literal translation.

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