Colossians 2:1
Striving? Yes, I want you to understand my deep concern for you and for those at Laodicea, for all who have never seen my face.
Colossians 1:29
I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.
Philippians 1:30
by waging the same conflict that, as once you saw and now you hear, I wage myself.
Revelation 1:11
"Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."
Colossians 4:12-13
Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.
Luke 22:44
he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]
Acts 20:25
I know to-day that not one of you will ever see my face again ??not one of you among whom I moved as I preached the Reign.
Acts 20:38
sorrowing chiefly because he told them they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.
Galatians 4:19
O my dear children, you with whom I am in travail over again till Christ be formed within you,
Colossians 1:24
I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;
Colossians 2:5
for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.
Colossians 4:15-16
Salute the brothers at Laodicea, also Nympha and the church which meets at her house.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.
Hebrews 5:7
In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.
1 Peter 1:8
You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy
Revelation 3:14-22
Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.