Colossians 1:23

Prayer For Maturity Based On Christ's Preeminence

²² in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself, ²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant. ²⁴ I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

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Good News

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In Christ

In the Faith

Paul

Ephesians 3:17

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

Mark 16:15

and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

Acts 2:5

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,

Colossians 1:5-6

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

Colossians 2:7

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Romans 10:18

but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- 'to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

Colossians 1:25

of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

Deuteronomy 2:25

This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.

Deuteronomy 4:19

'And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

Psalm 92:13-14

Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.

Psalm 125:5

As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

Lamentations 3:66

Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

Ezekiel 18:26

In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.

Hosea 6:3-4

And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'

Zephaniah 1:6

And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

Matthew 7:24-25

'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

Matthew 24:13-14

but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

Luke 6:48

he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

Luke 8:13-15

'And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

Luke 22:32

and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

John 8:30-32

As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;

John 15:6

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

John 15:9-10

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

Acts 1:17

because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration,

Acts 1:25

to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

Acts 4:12

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

Acts 11:23

who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

Acts 20:24

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

Acts 26:16

but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee,

Romans 2:7

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

Romans 5:5

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

Romans 15:16

for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

1 Corinthians 4:1-3

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

1 Corinthians 15:58

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

2 Corinthians 5:18-20

And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

2 Corinthians 11:23

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

Galatians 5:5

for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

Galatians 5:7

Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?

Galatians 6:9

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

Ephesians 1:18

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:21

in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

Ephesians 3:7-8

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

Ephesians 4:16

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

1 Thessalonians 3:5

because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,

2 Thessalonians 2:16

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

1 Timothy 1:12

And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put me to the ministration,

1 Timothy 2:7

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11-12

to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

2 Timothy 4:5-6

And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

Titus 3:7

that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.

Hebrews 3:6

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

Hebrews 3:14

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

Hebrews 4:14

Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,

Hebrews 6:19

which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,

Hebrews 10:38

and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

1 Peter 1:5

who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

2 Peter 2:18-22

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

1 John 2:27

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

1 John 3:1-3

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

Revelation 2:10

'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.