Colossians 4:12

³⁰Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

⁹For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

⁷even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your ^[+] behalf,

²⁸We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

²³Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

¹⁰For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

¹⁴I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers,^[+] that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

¹Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,^[+] to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

¹⁹My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

⁶We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.