Colossians 1:13

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has made us worthy unto a participation of the inheritance of the saints in light; ¹³ who delivered us from the power of darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins:

Beloved Son

Power of Darkness

Ephesians 6:12

because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Ephesians 1:6

unto the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved:

2 Peter 1:11

For in this way an entrance will be administered unto you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Matthew 3:17

And behold, a voice from the heavens, saying; This is my beloved Son in whom I delight.

Luke 22:53

I being daily with you in the temple, you reached not out your hands unto me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them.

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart;

Ephesians 5:8

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

1 Thessalonians 2:12

and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Titus 3:3-6

For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;

Hebrews 2:14

Then since the children have inherited blood and flesh, he likewise also received the same, in order that through death he might set at nought him who has the power of death, that is, the devil;

1 Peter 2:9

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

1 John 2:8

Again I do write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you: because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

1 John 3:8

The one doing sin is of the devil; because the devil sins from the beginning. Unto this the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Matthew 12:29-30

Or how is any one able to enter into the house of a strong man, and spoil his goods, unless he may first bind the strong man, and then he can spoil his house.

Matthew 17:5

He still speaking, behold, a white cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted; hear ye Him.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 13:24

Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

John 3:35

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things in His hands.

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say unto you, that every one hearing my word, and believing on Him that sent me hath eternal life, and doth not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 12:31-32

Now is the judgment of this world: now the prince of this world shall be cast out.

John 17:24

Father, that which thou hast given unto me, I wish that they may also be with me, where I am, in order that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given unto me: because thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

Romans 6:17-22

But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

1 Corinthians 15:23-25

But each one in his own rank: Christ the first-fruit; then they who are Christ's, at His coming:

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Ephesians 2:3-10

among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also: