...«f u do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing * in his cight, — And Ef,aphras, for the Colossians — " That they might stand perfect and complete in all " the will of God. " Next to the precepts of the law, .we are to consider " the duties which the Gospel requires of us,nam,;Iy...

...pointed out to the imitation of all ministers. He always laboured ' fervently for them in prayers, " that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God."* And this was indeed one of the best methods of evincing the sincerity of his zeal, which Paul owns...

...righteousness, which are by Christ Jesus, to the honour and praise of God." And, in a word, he prays, that "They might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." Surely the apostle believed, that what he so earnestly prayed for the Lord was willing to communicate....

....remembered each of them without ceasing in his prayers, he always laboured fervently for them in prayer, that they might stand perfect *and complete in all the will of God. On their part, they ceased not to supplicate God for the Apostle. Thus a new tendency was given to...

...forcible terms of the prayer of Epaphras for the Colossians : " Labouring fervently for them in prayer, that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." Mrs. Thorley was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale, of Ollerton, near Knutsford, in Cheshire. They...

...i. 28.) — He wanted the Colossians fnlly to ' pnt on charity, which is the bond of perfection, — that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.' (Col. iii. 14 ; \v. 12.) He wonld have ' the man of God to be perfect, thoronghly famished to every...

...remembered each of them without ceasing in his prayers, he always laboured fervently for them in prayer, that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. On their part, they ceased not to supplicate God for the Apostle. Thus a new tendency was given to...

...him, as being sufficient to communicate every grace. Epaphras laboured always fervently in prayers for the Colossians, that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God ; Col. iv. 12. " Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing...

...as being sufficient to cotnmunicate every grace. Epaphras laboured always fervently in prayers for the Colossians, that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God; Col. iv. 12. " Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing...

...and did not forget them when he was absent from them, always labouring fervently for them in prayer, that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. He was now at Rome, and a sufferer with Paul ; perhaps in the very same confinement : if not in the...