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# Connecting Statement:
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Because the Spirit has enabled them to love others, Paul prays for them and tells them here how he prays for them.
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# Because of this love
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"Because the Holy Spirit has enabled you to love other believers"
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# we heard ... we have not stopped ... We have been asking
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The word "we" does not include the Colossians. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive]])
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# from the day we heard this
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"from the day Epaphras told us these things"
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# that you will be filled with the knowledge of his will
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Paul speaks of the Colossian believers as though they were containers. Alternate translation: "that God will fill you with what you need to know so that you can do his will" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# in all wisdom and spiritual understanding
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"so that the Holy Spirit will make you wise and able to understand what God wants you to do"
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