Colossians 2:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ For I wish you to know how-vast a struggle I have concerning you and those in Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

⁸ And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and I have indeed prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. ²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him.
²⁶ And he said, Let me go, because the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Your name will be called Jacob no more, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.
²⁹ And Jacob asked him and said, I beseech you, tell me your name.
And he said, Why is it that you ask for my name? And he blessed him there.
³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.

³ In the womb he took his brother by the heel and in his manhood he had strength with God. ⁴ Yes, he had strength over the messenger and prevailed, as he wept and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel and there he spoke with us.

⁴⁴ And having become in agony, he was praying more intensely, and his sweat became like thick drops of blood going down upon the soil.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went through preaching the kingdom of God, will be seeing my face no more,

³⁸ sorrowing especially upon the word which he had spoken, because they are about to view his face no more. Now they were sending him onward to the ship.

¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you.

³⁰ having the same struggle such-as you saw in me, and now are hearing to be in me.

²⁴ Now I am rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf and I am filling up in my flesh, the things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ on behalf of his body, which is the congregation of believers;

²⁹ for which I also labor, struggling according to his working, which works in power in me.

⁵ For even if I am absent in the flesh, but yet I am together with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God. ¹³ For I am testifying of him, that he has much zeal on your behalf, and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

¹⁵ Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the congregation which is in his house.
¹⁶ And whenever this letter has been read before you, do forward it, in order that it should also be read in the congregation of the Laodiceans, and in order that you also should read the letter from Laodicea.

² But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi, just-as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God, even in our large struggle.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, has offered up both prayers and supplications with a strong outcry and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and having been heard from his piety.

⁸ You love whom you have not seen; now you believe in whom you do not see; in both you are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy;

¹¹ saying, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven congregations : to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

¹⁴ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea:
The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the one in the beginning from the creation of God, says these things: ¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish-that you might be cold or hot. ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm and not hot nor cold, I am about to puke you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, I am rich and have enriched ourselves and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and are poor and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I am counseling together with you to buy gold from me, having been refined out of fire, in order that you may be enriched, and in order that you should dress yourself with white garments and in order that the shame of your nakedness should not be manifested to all, and in order that you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see. ¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. ²⁰ Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking; if anyone hears my voice and if he opens the door, I will enter to him and will dine with him and he with me. ²¹ He who overcomes, I will be giving to him to sit with me at my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father at his throne.
²² He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.