Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me in person. ² I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.

Philippians 1:30

having the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I have.

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

Genesis 32:24-30

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Hosea 12:3-4

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,
and as an adult he wrestled with God.

Luke 22:44

Being in anguish, He prayed more fervently, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

Acts 20:25

“And now I know that none of you will ever see my face again—everyone I went about preaching the kingdom to.

Acts 20:38

grieving most of all over his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

Colossians 2:5

For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Give my greetings to the brothers in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her home.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

On the contrary, after we had previously suffered, and we were treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

1 Peter 1:8

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy,

Revelation 3:14-22

“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea:

“The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation says:

Genesis 30:8

Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.