Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, ² that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in charity and in all the riches of the fulfilled understanding to know the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ;

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

in which I continue to labour, contending according to his operation, which he works in me mightily.

Philippians 1:30

having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me.

Revelation 1:11

that said, I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, and What thou seest, write in a book and send it unto the seven congregations which are in Asia: unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea.

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand firm, perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God.

Genesis 32:24-30

And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

Hosea 12:3-4

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and with his strength he overcame the angel;

Luke 22:44

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

sorrowing most of all for the word which he spoke, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

Colossians 1:24

who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the congregation ,

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea and Nymphas and the congregation which is in his house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but having suffered before and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to announce unto you the gospel of God with much diligence.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, was heard because of his reverent fear;

1 Peter 1:8

whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

Revelation 3:14-22

And unto the angel of the congregation of the Laodiceans write; Behold, he who saith, Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

Genesis 30:8

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.