Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face. ² My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

Philippians 1:30

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

Revelation 1:11

saying: "Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches -- to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Genesis 32:24-30

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Hosea 12:3-4

In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.

Luke 22:44

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

Acts 20:25

"And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

Acts 20:38

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body -- for the sake of his body, the church -- what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

1 Peter 1:8

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Revelation 3:14-22

"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God's creation:

Genesis 30:8

Then Rachel said, "I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won." So she named him Naphtali.