Colossians 1:12

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹¹ then you will be perfectly empowered by His glorious might for every sort of joyous endurance and forbearance, ¹² and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light. ¹³ It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

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Acts 20:32

And now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of His favor, which is able to build you up and to give you your proper possession among all God's consecrated people.

Ephesians 5:20

continue giving thanks for everything to God our Father;

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

Colossians 3:15

Let the peace that Christ can give keep on acting as umpire in your hearts, for you were called to this state as members of one body. And practice being thankful.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to those at His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

John 4:23

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

John 14:6

Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Romans 8:17

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

Romans 8:29-30

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

Romans 9:23

so as to make known the riches of His glory for the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in ages past to share His glory --

Romans 11:17

If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,

Romans 15:27

They certainly were delighted to do it, and they really are under obligation to them, for if the heathen peoples have shared in their spiritual blessings, they ought to serve them in material blessings.

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and the goal of our living, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do it all for the sake of the good news, so as to share with others in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 5:5

Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss.

Ephesians 1:11

in union with whom we were made God's portion, since we had been foreordained in accordance with the purpose of Him who in everything carries out the plan of His will,

Ephesians 1:18

by having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is to which He calls you, how glorious rich God's portion in His people is,

Ephesians 3:6

that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

Ephesians 4:6

one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, and who is within us all.

Ephesians 5:4

there must be no indecency, silly talk or suggestive jesting, for they are unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become real sharers in Christ, if we keep firm to the end the faith we had at first,

Hebrews 12:23

to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection,

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in God's likeness.

1 Peter 1:2-5

the people chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with His blood: spiritual blessing and peace to you in increasing abundance.

1 Peter 5:1

So, as a joint-elder with them, a witness of the suffering borne by Christ, and a sharer of the glory that is to be uncovered, I beg the elders among you,

1 John 1:3

I repeat, it is what we have seen and heard that we now announce to you, so that you too may share this fellowship with us, for this fellowship that we have is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ;

1 John 3:1-3

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

Revelation 21:23

The city does not need the sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God has lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

Revelation 22:5

There will be no night any longer; so they will need no lamplight nor sunlight, for the Lord God will give them light, and they will rule forever and ever.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have a right to the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.