Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh, ² that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ himself,

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

For this end I labor, striving with all his energy, which so mightily works within me.

Philippians 1:30

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

Revelation 1:11

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

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a servant of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Luke 22:44

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that all of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

grieving most of all over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share for the sake of his body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.

Colossians 2:5

For even though I am absent in flesh, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Give my greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but after we had already suffered and been shamefully treated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his godly fear.

1 Peter 1:8

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

Revelation 3:14-22

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation: