1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Colossians 1:10 That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing: being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:

Worthy of God: axios tou kuriou. So St. 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{ Ver. 10. Ut ambuletis dignè Deo per omnia placentes; axios tou Kuriou eis pasan areskeian.|} all things pleasing him. This is the construction of the Latin by the Greek. (Witham)