Colossians 1:23

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

²² yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him, ²³ if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

Continue in the Faith

Good News

Hope of the Gospel

In Christ

In the Faith

Paul

Ephesians 3:17

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Mark 16:15

He said to them, "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to the whole creation.

Acts 2:5

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

Colossians 1:5-6

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Romans 10:18

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, truly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us sufficient as servants of a New Covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Colossians 1:25

of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

Deuteronomy 2:25

This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you."

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Psalm 92:13-14

They are planted in the LORD's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Lamentations 3:66

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

Ezekiel 18:26

When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

Hosea 6:3-4

Let us acknowledge the LORD. Let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, The LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven't sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Matthew 7:24-25

"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, will be compared to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Matthew 24:13-14

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

Luke 6:48

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Luke 8:13-15

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Luke 22:32

but I prayed for you, that your faith would not fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers."

John 8:30-32

As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

John 15:6

If a man does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

John 15:9-10

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Acts 1:17

For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

Acts 1:25

to take part in this ministry and office of apostle from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."

Acts 4:12

And there is salvation in none other, for there is no other name under heaven, that is given among men by which we must be saved."

Acts 11:23

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

Acts 20:24

But I make my life an account of nothing precious to myself, so that I may finish my race, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Acts 26:16

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

Romans 2:7

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality -- eternal life.

Romans 5:5

and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 15:16

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

1 Corinthians 4:1-3

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not faint.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Galatians 5:5

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

Galatians 5:7

You were running well. Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Galatians 6:9

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up.

Ephesians 1:18

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:21

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Ephesians 3:7-8

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Ephesians 4:16

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this cause I also, when I could not stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

1 Timothy 1:12

And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

1 Timothy 2:7

to which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11-12

For this, I was appointed as a proclaimer, an apostle, and a teacher.

2 Timothy 4:5-6

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Titus 3:7

that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

Hebrews 4:14

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

Hebrews 6:19

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Hebrews 10:38

But my righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:5

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

2 Peter 2:18-22

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;

1 John 2:27

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you remain in him.

1 John 3:1-3

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.