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Colossians 1:10

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that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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Verse 10. Worthy of God: αξιως του κυριου. So Saint Ambrose and the Greek doctors; or thus, worthily, pleasing God, and this not by faith only, but fruitful in every good work. Ibid.—God, in [1] all things pleasing him. This is the construction of the Latin by the Greek. Witham.

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