Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ FOR I wish you to know how great a struggle I sustain for you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ² that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

Philippians 1:30

experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

Revelation 1:11

saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last; and what thou seest write in a book, and send to the churches which are in Asia: 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, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Luke 22:44

And being in an agony, he prayed with greater intenseness: and his sweat was as clots of blood falling on the ground.

Acts 20:25

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

Acts 20:38

most peculiarly afflicted at that word which he had spoken, 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 be formed in you,

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent from you in person, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regular 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 which is at his house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

Hebrews 5:7

who in the days of his flesh, with strong crying and tears, having offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being heard for his reverential awe,

1 Peter 1:8

whom though ye have not seen, ye love; on whom, though ye have not as yet gazed, yet believing, ye exult with joy unutterable and glorious:

Revelation 3:14-22

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of the creation of God;