Colossians 4:12 Cross References - Godbey

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.

⁴⁸ Therefore ye shall be perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

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.

²⁶ If any one may minister unto me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my minister be: if any one may minister unto me, the Father will honor him.

¹⁴ But I am indeed persuaded, my brethren, concerning you, that you are also full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another.

³⁰ But I exhort you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you cooperate with me in your prayers to God in my behalf;

⁶ But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

¹¹ Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect; be of good comfort; think the same thing, live in peace: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁰ For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

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

¹² Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it; ¹⁴ but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore let us, so many as are perfect, think the same thing: and if you think otherwise in any respect, God will also reveal this to you:

⁷ as you have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is the faithful minister of Christ your behalf,

⁹ Therefore we, from the day on which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the perfect knowledge of his will in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding,

²² in the body of his cross through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreprovable before him,

²⁸ whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

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; ² in order that their hearts may be comforted, being knitted together in divine love, and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the perfect knowledge of the mystery of God, of Christ, ³ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ I say this in order that no one may deceive you with a persuasive speech. 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. ⁶ Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk about in him, ⁷ having been rooted and grounded in him, and confirmed in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in thanksgiving. ⁸ See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ, ⁹ because in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, ¹⁰ and you are complete in him, who is the head of all government and authority: ¹¹ in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you are also raised by the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead: ¹³ and you, being dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your depravity, has he created life in you along with himself, having forgiven us all transgressions, ¹⁴ having blotted out the handwriting which was against us in ordinances, which was antagonistical to us: and took it out from the midst, having nailed it to the cross; ¹⁵ having destroyed governments and authorities, he made a public exhibition of them triumphing over them on it. ¹⁶ Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: ¹⁷ which things are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one purposely rob you of your prize by humiliation and worship of the angels, trusting in those things which he has seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his depravity, ¹⁹ and not holding the Head, from which the entire body, by joints and ligaments being supplied and knitted together, increases the increase of God. ²⁰ If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world, ²¹ Touch not, taste not, handle not, ²² those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people? ²³ Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

¹ Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. ² Be constant in prayer, watching in the same with thanksgiving;

²³ And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow-soldier in Christ Jesus;

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,

¹⁴ but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.

¹ James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

¹⁶ Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.

¹ Simon Peter, the servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those receiving like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

²⁴ But to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to establish you blameless in the presence of his glory with rejoicing.