Colossians 1:9-14 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you… "If I was ever brought into the kingdom of God," said a venerable Christian lady, "it was owing to the intercessions of old Dr. L. He married me, and he used often to call and speak a few earnest words to me about my soul. 'You are now a wife and a mother,' he would say; 'do not delay to give yourself to the Lord, and to pray for grace to fulfil your duties. I shall never cease to plead for you.'" The thought that a man of God was pleading for her before God, as well as pleading with her at the bar of her own conscience, was the point which seems to have made the impression. Parallel Verses KJV: For 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; |
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