Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I wish you to know how great a conflict I am having for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh; ² that their hearts may he comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ,

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

to which end I am toiling also, striving according to His working, which is working in me with power.

Philippians 1:30

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

Revelation 1:11

saying, "What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven assemblies; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

Colossians 4:12-13

Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Luke 22:44

And, being in an agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became, as it were, large drops of blood falling down upon the ground!

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom, will see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

being distressed especially on account of the word which he had spoken, that they were to see his face no more. And they were escorting him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

my little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be formed in you!

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings in your behalf, and fill up in turn the deficiencies of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His body, which is the assembly;

Colossians 2:5

for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the Spirit, rejoicing, and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 4:15-16

Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly in her house.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but, having suffered before, and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, in Philippi, we grew bold in our God to speak to you the Gospel of God in much conflict.

Hebrews 5:7

Who, in the days of His flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death, and having been heard by reason of His godly fear,

1 Peter 1:8

Whom, not having seen, ye love; on Whom, though now not seeing Him, yet believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

Revelation 3:14-22

"And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write these things," saith the Amen, the Faithful and the True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: