Colossians 1:6 Cross References - Moffatt

⁶ which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

¹⁴ This gospel of the Reign shall be preached all over the wide world as a testimony to all the Gentiles, and then the end will come.

¹⁹ go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

⁸ some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

²⁶ And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth; ²⁷ he sleeps at night and rises by day, and the seed sprouts and shoots up — he knows not how. ²⁸ (For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.) ²⁹ But whenever the crop is ready, he has the sickle put in at once, as harvest has come."

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature:

²³ But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

²⁴ The word of God spread and multiplied.

¹⁴ Among the listeners there was a woman called Lydia, a dealer in purple who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She reverenced God, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.

¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

¹³ Brothers, I would like you to understand that I have often purposed to come to you (though up till now I have been prevented) so as to have some results among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

¹⁷ (You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.) ¹⁸ But, I ask, "Have they never heard?" Indeed they have. Their voice carried over all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

¹⁹ by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ —

²⁸ Well, once I finish this business by putting the proceeds of the collection safely in their hands, I will start for Spain and take you on the way.

²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side. ¹¹ At any rate, whether I or they have done most, such is what we preach, such is what you believed.

¹ I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

¹⁴ I am not overstepping the limit, as if you lay beyond my sphere; I was the very first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

² for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

²¹ (for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed — the real Christ who is in Jesus);

²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

⁹ (for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

¹¹ your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

¹⁷ It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

¹⁰ so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!

²³ that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

² whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹² By the hand of Silvanus, a faithful brother (in my opinion), I have written you these few lines of encouragement, to testify that this is what the true grace of God means. Stand in that grace.