Colossians 1:23

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Colossians 1:23

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Summary

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Ye continue

Grounded

Moved

Under

Acts 4:12

Whereof

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Bible References

Ye continue

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.

And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.

But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

When he said this a number came to have faith in him.

Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Grounded

Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

Moved

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.

Under

From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.

And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.

And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

Whereof

Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

General references

I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.

And they will come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and take their places in the kingdom of God.

Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;