Colossians 2:1

Christ, The Mystery Of God

¹ For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, ² that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

Face to Face

Christ

Colosse

Laodicea

Paul

Colossians 1:29

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

Philippians 1:30

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

Revelation 1:11

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, 'What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

Colossians 4:12-13

Salute you doth Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

Genesis 32:24-30

And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;

Hosea 12:3-4

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,

Luke 22:44

and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

Acts 20:25

And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, -- ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God;

Acts 20:38

sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said -- that they are about no more to see his face; and they were accompanying him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

Colossians 1:24

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

Colossians 2:5

for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

Colossians 4:15-16

salute ye those in Laodicea -- brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

Hebrews 5:7

who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,

1 Peter 1:8

whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

Revelation 3:14-22

And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;

Genesis 30:8

and Rachel saith, 'With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.