Colossians 1:23

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Colossians 1:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

John 15:6

Acts 20:24

1 Thessalonians 3:3

Under

Acts 2:5

Acts 4:12

Whereof

General references

Mark 13:10

Luke 13:29

Philippians 1:5

Bible References

Ye continue

But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And afterward you yourself must turn and strengthen your brothers."

As he said this, many believed in him.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.

When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

You were making such progress! Who has stopped your obeying the truth?

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

That was why, when I could not bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter might have tempted you and all our labor might be lost.

but Christ's faithfulness was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are that house, if we keep up our courage and our triumphant hope to the very end.

Since then we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great high priest who has gone up into heaven, let us keep firm hold of our religion.

And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."

and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

They utter arrogant nonsense and use physical cravings to lure into immorality men who are just escaping from among those who live in error;

You still retain in your hearts the anointing with the Spirit that you received from him, and you do not need to have anyone teach you. But just as that anointing of his teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, keep in union with him just as it has taught you to do.

Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

Grounded

You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.

"Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep and laid his foundation upon the rock, and when there was a flood the torrent burst upon that house and could not shake it, because it was well built.

Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord,

and through your faith to let Christ in his love make his home in your hearts. Your roots must be deep and your foundations strong,

For it is under his control that the whole system, adjusted and united by each ligament of its equipment, develops in proportion to the functioning of each particular part, and so builds itself up through love.

Moved

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,

Under

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

Whereof

In it, by divine appointment, I became a worker, that I might preach among you the message of God in its fulness??26 that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me.

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

The right way for a man to think of us is as Christ's servants, and managers authorized to distribute the secret truths of God.

and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.

All this comes from God, who through Christ has reconciled me to himself, and has commissioned me to proclaim this reconciliation??19 how God through Christ reconciled the world to himself, refusing to count men's offenses against them, and intrusted me with the message of reconciliation.

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me the strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into his service,

and I was appointed a herald and apostle of it?? am telling the truth, I am not lying??o teach the heathen faith and truth.

of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.

But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.

General references

For before the end the good news must be preached to all the heathen.

People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.

over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.