Colossians 1:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Whom

Christ

General references

Matthew 12:21

Mark 12:11

Bible References

Whom

Now we have not received the spirit that belongs to the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may get an insight into the blessings God has graciously given us.

But thanks be to God, for He always leads me in His triumphal train, through union with Christ, and everywhere through me keeps spreading the perfume of the knowledge of Him.

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, reflected on the face of Christ.

But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor,

Christ

In this new relation there is no Greek and Jew, no circumcised and uncircumcised, no barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is everything and in us all.

and so people will not say, 'Look! Here it is,' nor, 'There it is,' for the kingdom of God is within you."

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood continues to live in union with me and I in union with him.

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

I have given them the glory which you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are,

But if Christ lives in you, although your bodies must die because of sin, your spirits are now enjoying life because of right standing with God.

Are you not conscious that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has His permanent home in you?

And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.

and you yourselves, in union with Him, in fellowship with one another, are being built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

You are children of God, dear children, and you have conquered these men, because He who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.

General references

On His name the heathen will set their hopes."

This is the work of the Lord, and seems wonderful to us'?"