Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face. ² May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

Philippians 1:30

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

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 Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

Luke 22:44

(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)

Acts 20:25

And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

Acts 20:38

sorrowing most of all for the words that he had spoken, that after that day they should look upon his face no more. And they began to escort him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Salute the brothers in Laodicea; Nympha also, and the church which meets at her house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

1 Peter 1:8

Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

Revelation 3:14-22

To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God.