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9 Due to this, we also, from the day we heard of it*, do not refrain from praying and petitioning for you, that you be filled with the knowledge of the will of Him, in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension.
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23 if indeed you persist in the faith, having been founded and being steadfast and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel, the one you heard, the one proclaimed in all creation that is under the heaven, the one I myself, Paul, became a servant to.
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Notes
9 "it" refers to the love mentioned in the preceding verse, because the Gk word used is feminine, like the Gk word for love. If it did not refer to love but more generally to what had been told by Epaphras, the Gk word used would have been neuter.