Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ's People at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me; ² In the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God's hidden Truth,

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.

Philippians 1:30

You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still.

Revelation 1:11

It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.

Luke 22:44

And, as his anguish became intense, he prayed still more earnestly, while his sweat was like great drops of blood falling on the ground.]

Acts 20:25

And now, I tell you, I know that none of you will ever see my face again--you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom.

Acts 20:38

Grieving most of all over what he had said--that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.

Colossians 1:24

Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his Body, the Church;

Colossians 2:5

It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Give my greeting to the Brethren at Laodicea, and to Nymphe, and to the Church that meets at her house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

For, although we had experienced suffering and ill-treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News in spite of great opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

Jesus, in the days of his earthly life, offered prayers and supplications, with earnest cries and with tears, to him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

1 Peter 1:8

Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,

Revelation 3:14-22

To the Angel of the Church in Laodicaea write:-- "These are the words of the Unchanging One, 'the Witness faithful and true, the Beginning of the Creation of God':--