Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ² that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh 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

saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Genesis 32:24-30

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 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 power with God:

Luke 22:44

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

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

Colossians 2:5

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

Colossians 4:15-16

Salute the brethren that are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in their house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

1 Peter 1:8

whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Revelation 3:14-22

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning 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.