Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh. ² So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ.

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

Philippians 1:30

having the same conflict such as ye saw in me, and now hear is in me.

Revelation 1:11

saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full 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

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God.

Luke 22:44

And having become in agony he prayed more intensely, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Acts 20:25

And now behold, I have seen that ye will no longer see my face, ye all among whom I passed through preaching the kingdom of God.

Acts 20:38

sorrowing especially for the word that he had spoken, that they were going to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.

Colossians 1:24

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

Colossians 2:5

For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your orderliness, and the steadfastness of your faith for Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Salute the brothers in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly associated with his house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God within much conflict.

Hebrews 5:7

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong shouting and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence,

1 Peter 1:8

Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

Revelation 3:14-22

And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and TRUE witness, the primacy of the creation of God:

Genesis 30:8

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