Colossians 2:7

Christ Versus The Colossian Heresy

⁶ So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him, ⁷ with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude. ⁸ Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.

In the Faith

O God

Ephesians 3:17

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

Ephesians 2:20-22

for you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself the cornerstone.

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

Romans 11:17-18

If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,

Ephesians 5:20

continue giving thanks for everything to God our Father;

Matthew 7:24-25

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

Luke 6:48

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep, and laid its foundation upon the rock; and when a flood came, the torrent burst upon that house but it could not shake it, because it was well built.

Romans 16:25

To Him who can make you strong in accordance with the good news I bring and in accordance with the message preached about Jesus Christ, in accordance with the uncovering of the secret which for ages past had not been told,

1 Corinthians 3:9-15

for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

2 Corinthians 1:21

But it is God who makes us as well as you secure through union with Christ, and has anointed us,

Ephesians 4:21

if, as I take it, you have heard Him and in union with Him have been taught the truth as it is seen in Jesus,

Colossians 1:12-13

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Make it a habit to give thanks for everything, for this is God's will for you through Christ Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 2:17

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

Hebrews 13:15

So then, through Christ, let us always offer God the sacrifice of praise; that is, the speech of lips that glorify the name of God.

1 Peter 2:4-6

Keep on coming to Him, as to a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious in His sight,

1 Peter 5:10

And God, the giver of every spiritual blessing, who through your union with Christ has called you to His eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong,

2 Peter 3:17-18

So, dearly beloved, since you have been forewarned, you must always be on your guard against being led astray by the errors of lawless men, and so against falling away from your present firmness;

Jude 1:12

They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:20

But you, dearly beloved, must continue to build yourselves up on the groundwork of your most holy faith and to pray in the Holy Spirit;

Jude 1:24

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in His glorious presence faultless and full of triumphant joy,

John 15:4-5

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.