9For 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; …
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, …
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-11)The apostle proceeds in these verses to pray for them. He heard that they were good, and he prayed that they might be better. He was constant in this prayer: We do not cease to pray for you . It may be he could hear of them but seldom, but he constantly prayed for them.— And desire that you may be filled with the knowledge , etc. Observe what it is that he begs of God for them, I. That they might…
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