Colossians 2:1 Cross References - Godbey

¹ For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have in behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and so many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

⁴⁴ And being in agony He continued to pray the more earnestly. And His sweat was like drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I came preaching the gospel of the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

³⁸ being especially grieved at the word which he had spoken, that they were about to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

¹⁹ My children, for whom I again travail in pain until Christ may be formed in you,

³⁰ having the same conflict as you saw in me, and now hearing me.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church;

²⁹ unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.

⁵ For if I am absent in the flesh, but I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the establishment of your faith toward Christ.

¹² Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you. ¹³ For I testify to him, that he always has much solicitude for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those who are in Hierapolis.

¹⁵ Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in their house. ¹⁶ And when the letter may be read by you, cause that it may also be read in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you may also read the letter from Laodicea.

² but having suffered, and been abused, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having with strong crying and tears offered up both prayers and supplications unto him who is able to save him from death, and having been heard on account of his piety,

⁸ whom you not seeing, love with divine love; on whom, not looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

¹¹ saying, Write what you are seeing in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write; The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, says these things; ¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were either cold or hot. ¹⁶ Thus because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you are saying, That I am rich, and have increased in riches, and have need as to nothing, and do you not know that you are miserable, and pitiful, and poor, and blind, and naked? ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been purified by the fire, in order that you may be rich; and white garments, in order that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not be exposed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. ¹⁹ So many as I love, I rebuke and chastise; be zealous, and repent. ²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door, and am knocking: if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me. ²¹ The one conquering, I will give unto him to sit with me on my throne, as I indeed have conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² Let the one having ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches.