Outline of Colossians 1:9-14

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it,
    do not cease
        to pray for you,
    and
        to ask

that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will
    in all wisdom
and
    spiritual understanding;

that you may
    walk worthy of the Lord,
    fully pleasing Him,
    being fruitful in every good work and
    increasing in the knowledge of God;

strengthened with all might,
    according to His glorious power,
    for all patience and longsuffering with joy;

giving thanks to the Father
    who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

He has
    delivered us from the power of darkness
and
    conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
        in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Outline of Colossians 1:3-8

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
praying always for you,
    since we heard
        of your faith in Christ Jesus
    and
        of your love for all the saints;

because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,
    of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
        which has come to you, as it has also in all the world,
    and
        is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you
            since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

as you also learned from Epaphras,
    our dear fellow servant,
    who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,
    who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 1:1-2 (NKJV)

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.