1:4 since 1 we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.
Colossians 3:9
3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices
1 tn The adverbial participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") is understood to be temporal and translated with “since.” A causal idea may also be in the apostle’s mind, but the context emphasizes temporal ideas, e.g., “from the day” (v. 6).