Colossians 2:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

What

Hebrews 5:7

At

Colossians 4:13

Revelation 1:11

Revelation 3:14

Not

Colossians 2:5

Acts 20:25

1 Peter 1:8

Bible References

What

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)

O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

At

For I can testify to his deep interest in you and in those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God.

Not

For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,