Colossians 1:6 Cross References - Riverside

⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the inhabited world for a testimony to all the Gentiles. And then will come the end.

¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

⁸ Other seed fell into good ground and grew tall and strong and yielded thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

²⁶ He said again, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man casts seed on the ground ²⁷ and goes on sleeping by night and rising by day, and the seed sprouts and grows up, he knows not how. ²⁸ The ground of itself yields fruit: first the stalk, then the ear, then comes the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ When the grain is ripe immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come."

¹⁵ He said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

²³ But the hour is coming — yes, is now here — when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeks for such worshipers.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

¹⁸ On hearing this they ceased their criticism and gave glory to God, saying, "Then even to the Gentiles God has granted the change of heart that leads to life."

²⁴ But God's message grew and spread.

¹⁴ One woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple, from the city of Thyatira, who reverenced God, was listening. God opened her heart to receive what was said by Paul.

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are made holy by faith in me.'

¹³ I am not willing that you should be ignorant, brethren, that often I have purposed to come to you (though until now I have been hindered), in order that I might have some fruit among you as among the other Gentiles.

¹⁷ So then faith comes from the report and report comes through the word of Christ. ¹⁸ But I say, it cannot be true that they have not heard, can it? On the contrary, "Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world."

¹⁹ through the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ,

²⁸ So after completing this and sealing to them this fruit, I shall come away and pass by you to Spain.

²⁶ but now made manifest through the prophetic Scriptures by the command of the eternal God, to promote obedience to the faith made known to all the Gentiles —

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without result, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed.

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly.

¹⁴ For we are not stretching ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to reach you with the good news of Christ.

² if you have heard of the gracious commission which God has given me to you,

²¹ if you have heard him and have been taught in him as the truth is in Jesus,

²³ and that you should be made new in the spirit of your minds

⁹ for the fruit of light appears in all generosity and righteousness and truth —

¹¹ filled with the fruit of knowledge through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

¹⁷ Not that I am seeking for the gift, but I am seeking for the fruit that increases to your credit.

¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.

²³ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant.

⁵ and that our good news came to you not in word only but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in great assurance, just as you know we acted among you for your benefit.

¹³ For this reason we unceasingly give thanks to God that when you received from us the report of the message of God you accepted it not as the message of men, but, as it truly is, the message of God, which also is doing its work in you who believe.

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world,

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and made holy by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace be to you and peace be multiplied. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead —

¹² By Silvanus, your faithful brother, as I esteem him, I am writing to you briefly, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it.