Colossians 2:1 Cross References - Riverside

¹ FOR I wish you to know how I am wrestling for you and for those in Laodicea and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh,

⁴⁴ Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood failing upon the ground.

²⁵ And now I know that you all, among whom I have gone about heralding the kingdom, will never see my face again.

³⁸ grieving especially because he had said that they would never see his face again; and they escorted him to the ship.

¹⁹ my children, for whom I again am suffering birth pangs until Christ is formed in you.

³⁰ and you have the same struggle that you saw in me and now hear of in me.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

²⁹ For this also I labor, wrestling with the energy of him who works powerfully within me.

⁵ For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

¹² Epaphras, the servant of Christ Jesus, who is one of you, sends his greetings to you. He always wrestles in prayer on your behalf that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. ¹³ I bear witness to the burden that he carries for you and for those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

¹⁵ Give our greeting to the brethren in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house. ¹⁶ When this letter has been read among you, have it read in the church of the Laodiceans, and you are to read the letter that will come from Laodicea.

² but after we had suffered and been roughly treated, as you know, in Philippi, we made bold in our God to speak to you the good news of God with great wrestling.

⁷ Christ, in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, with strong outcries and tears, and was heard and saved from his terrors.

⁸ whom you love though you have not seen him; in whom you have faith though now you do not see him, and you rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy

¹¹ saying, "What you see write in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

¹⁴ "To the Angel of the Church in Laodicea write: "These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: ¹⁵ "I know your deeds — that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I shall spew you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich and have grown wealthy and lack nothing,' and do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ¹⁹ All that I love I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest, then, and repent. ²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me. ²¹ He who conquers — to him I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches."