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Thanksgiving and Prayer

Colossians 1:12

In 9 translations

BSB
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.BYZ and TR us
KJV
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
WEB
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,
ASV
giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
LSV
Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us for the participation of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light,
YLT
Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
DBY
giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,
DRC
Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:
GNV
Giuing thankes vnto the Father, which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saintes in light,

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort read ὑμᾶς (“you”); Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἡμᾶς (“us”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ὑμᾶς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ὑμᾶς; Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read ἡμᾶς.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
εὐχαριστοῦντες τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἱκανώσαντι ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν μερίδα τοῦ κλήρου τῶν ἁγίων ἐν τῷ φωτί,
RP2018
εὐχαριστοῦντες τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἱκανώσαντι ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν μερίδα τοῦ κλήρου τῶν ἁγίων ἐν τῷ φωτί,
TR-Boyd
εὐχαριστοῦντες τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἱκανώσαντι ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν μερίδα τοῦ κλήρου τῶν ἁγίων ἐν τῷ φωτί,
SCR1894
ευχαριστουντες τω πατρι τω ικανωσαντι ημας εις την μεριδα του κληρου των αγιων εν τω φωτι

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  • Acts 20:32And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
  • Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
  • Ephesians 1:18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
  • Romans 8:17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
  • Ephesians 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Peter 1:2–5according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord…
  • 2 Corinthians 5:5And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
  • Romans 8:29–30For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified;…
  • John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
  • 1 John 3:1–3Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are now children…
  • Hebrews 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
  • Colossians 2:2that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
  • Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
  • 1 Corinthians 8:6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
  • Ephesians 5:20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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