Colossians 1:13

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

¹² thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light, ¹³ rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son! ¹⁴ In him we enjoy our redemption, that is, the forgiveness of sins.

Beloved Son

Power of Darkness

Ephesians 6:12

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

Acts 26:18

that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

Ephesians 1:6

redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

2 Peter 1:11

you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

Matthew 3:17

And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."

Luke 22:53

Day after day I was beside you in the temple, and you never stretched a hand against me. But this is your hour, and the dark Power has its way."

2 Corinthians 4:4

there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

Ephesians 4:18

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

Ephesians 5:8

For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

1 Thessalonians 2:12

to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

Titus 3:3-6

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Hebrews 2:14

Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

1 Peter 2:9

But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

1 John 2:8

And yet it is a new command I am writing to you ??realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

1 John 3:8

he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

1 John 3:14

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

Matthew 12:29-30

Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

Matthew 17:5

He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

Matthew 25:34

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 13:24

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

John 3:35

the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

John 5:24

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

John 12:31-32

Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

John 17:24

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Romans 6:17-22

Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

Romans 14:17

The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

1 Corinthians 15:23-25

But each in his own division: ??Christ the first to be reaped; after that, all who belong to Christ, at his arrival.

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

Ephesians 2:3-10

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.