Colossians 1:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Is come

Bringeth

Knew

In truth

John 4:23

General references

Mark 13:10

Luke 13:29

Acts 12:24

Bible References

Is come

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

And this good news of the kingdom must be preached all over the inhabited world, for a testimony to all the heathen, and then the end will come.

Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Then He said to them, "You must go all over the world and preach the good news to all the creation.

But may I ask, They had no chance to hear, did they? Yes, indeed: "All over the earth their voices have gone, to the ends of the world their words."

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit. So I have completed the telling of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

but now has been fully brought to light by means of the prophetic Scriptures, and in accordance with the command of the eternal God has been made known to all the heathen, to win them to obedience inspired by faith --

For I am not overstepping my authority as though I should not reach you, for I was the very first to reach as far as you with the good news of Christ.

Bringeth

so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;

Some fell in rich soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

But the message of the Lord continued to grow and spread.

Furthermore, I want you to know, brothers, that I have often planned to come to see you (though until now I have been prevented), in order that I may gather some fruit among you too, as I have among the rest of the heathen.

So, after I have finished this matter and made sure of the results of this contribution for them, I shall come by you on my way to Spain.

for the product of light consists in practicing everything that is good and right and true;

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit.

Knew

When they heard this, they had no answer to make, but gave God the glory, saying, "So God has given even the heathen the repentance that leads to life."

Among them was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods from the town of Thyatira, and she stayed to listen to us. She was already a worshiper of God, and the Lord so moved upon her heart that she accepted the message spoken by Paul.

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

that is, if you have heard how God's favor has been entrusted to me for you,

and to have a new attitude of mind

for our preaching of the good news came to you not entirely in words but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with absolute certainty (for you know the kind of men we were among you for your own sakes).

For another reason too, we, as far as we are concerned, are constantly giving thanks to God; that is, when you received the message you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which keeps on working in you who believe.

We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth,

For God's favor has appeared with its offer of salvation to all mankind,

the people chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with His blood: spiritual blessing and peace to you in increasing abundance.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I regard him, I have written you this short letter, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true, unmerited favor of God. Stand firm in it.

In truth

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

General references

But before the end comes, the good news must be proclaimed to all the heathen.

People will come from east and west, from north and south, and take their seats at the feast in the kingdom of God.

But the message of the Lord continued to grow and spread.