Colossians 1:5

Thanksgiving For The Colossian Believers

⁴ since we heard of your faith which ye have in Christ Jesus: and of the love which ye bear to all saints ⁵ for the hope's sake which is laid up in store for you in heaven, of which hope ye have heard before by the true word of the gospel, ⁶ which is come unto you, even as it is into all the world, and is fruitful as it is among you, from the first day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of God in the truth,

All the Saints

Good News

Laid Up for You in Heaven

Truth of the Gospel

Word of Truth

Acts 23:6

When Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. Of hope, and of resurrection from death I am judged."

Ephesians 1:13

In whom also ye - after that ye heard the word of truth, I mean the gospel of your salvation wherein ye believed - were sealed with the holy spirit of promise,

2 Timothy 4:8

From henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord that is a righteous judge shall give me at that day: not to me only: but unto all them that love his coming.

Colossians 1:23

if ye continue grounded and established in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, whereof ye have heard, how that it is preached among all creatures, which are under heaven, whereof I, Paul, am made a minister.

1 Peter 1:3-4

Blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which through his abundant mercy begat us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death,

Psalm 31:19

O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sons of men!

Matthew 6:19-20

"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Luke 12:33

Sell that ye have, and give alms. And make you bags, which wax not old, and treasure that faileth not in heaven, where no thief cometh, neither moth corrupteth.

Acts 10:36

Ye know the preaching that God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, which is Lord over all things;

Acts 13:26

Ye men and brethren, children of the generation off Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is this word of salvation sent.

Acts 24:15

and have hope towards God, that the same resurrection from death, which they themselves look for also, shall be both of just and unjust.

Acts 26:6-7

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Romans 10:8

But what saith the scripture? "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thine heart." This word is the word of faith which we preach.

1 Corinthians 13:13

Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If in this life only we believe on Christ, then are we, of all men, the miserablest.

2 Corinthians 5:19

For God was in Christ, and made agreement between the world and himself, and imputed not their sins unto them: and hath committed to us the preaching of the atonement.

2 Corinthians 6:7

in the words of truth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousness of the right hand and on the left hand,

Galatians 5:5

We look for, and hope in the spirit, to be justified through faith.

Ephesians 1:18-19

and lighten the eyes of your minds, that ye might know what thing that hope is, whereunto he hath called you, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is upon the saints,

Colossians 1:27

to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdom. Teach and exhort your own selves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs which have favour with them, singing in your hearts to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this cause thank we God without ceasing, because that when ye received of us the word, wherewith God was preached, ye received it not as the word of man: but even as it was, indeed, the word of God; which worketh in you that believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace,

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a true saying, and by all means worthy to be received, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief:

Titus 1:2

which is after godliness upon the hope of eternal life; which life God, that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:

Hebrews 7:19

For the law made no thing perfect: but was an introduction of a better hope, by which hope, we draw nigh unto God.

1 Peter 2:2

and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

1 John 3:3

And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.