Colossians 1:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ so that you will live the kind of life that ·honors [is worthy of] and pleases the Lord in every way. You will produce fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God. ¹¹ ·God will strengthen you [^L…being strengthened] with ·his own great power [^Lall power according to his glorious might] so that you will not give up when troubles come, but you will ·be patient. ¹² And you will joyfully give thanks [or …have patience with joy, ¹² giving thanks] to the Father who has made you^[a] able to have a share in ·all that he has prepared for his people in the kingdom of light [^Lthe inheritance of the saints/holy ones in the light].