Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, ² I do this that they may be filled with courage and be united (knit) together in love. I have the full assurance that only true understanding brings. In this way they will accurately know God's secret, which is Christ himself.

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Colossians 1:29

I work hard to get this done. I use the mighty strength Christ supplies. It is at work in me.

Philippians 1:30

You have the same conflict that you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Revelation 1:11

It said: Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven congregations in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

Colossians 4:12-13

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

Genesis 32:24-30

Then Jacob was by himself. A man was fighting with him till dawn.

Hosea 12:3-4

Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother's heel while the two of them were in their mother's womb. When Jacob became a man, he struggled with God.

Luke 22:44

(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

Acts 20:25

I know all of you and have preached the kingdom with you. But you will not see me again.

Acts 20:38

What grieved them most was his statement that they would not see him again. They accompanied him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you

Colossians 1:24

I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.

Colossians 2:5

Even though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit (mental disposition). I am glad when I see the resolute firmness with which you stand together in your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nympha, and the congregation that is in her house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

After we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, we had the boldness (confidence) in our God to speak the good news of God to you amid much opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)

1 Peter 1:8

You love him without seeing him. Though you do not see him, you believe in him. Full of glory, you rejoice greatly with indescribable joy.

Revelation 3:14-22

To the angel of the congregation in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation says this:

Genesis 30:8

Rachel said: I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won! So she named the boy Naphtali.