Colossians 2:2 Cross References - WPNT

² that their hearts may be encouraged, being united in love and into a great wealth of confident understanding, into a real knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ,

²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.

²⁷ “All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one really knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone really know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son may will to reveal Him .

²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.” ²² And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.”

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . ² He Himself existed in the beginning with God. ³ All things came to be by Him; that is, apart from Him not even one thing that has come into being came to be.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “Until now, my Father works, I also work.”

²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

⁶⁹ Further, we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³⁸ But if I am doing them, even though you don’t believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in Him.”

⁹ Jesus says to him: “Such a long time I’ve been with you, and you haven’t known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own; rather it is the Father who dwells in me who does the works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or else, believe me because of the works themselves.

¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that’s why I said that He takes from what is mine and will communicate it to you.

³ Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.

²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me. ²² In fact, the glory that You gave to me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one: ²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me.

³² Now the multitude of those who believed was of one heart and soul; indeed not one was saying that any of his belongings was his own, but they had all things in common.

¹³ Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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¹² We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God;

⁴ who encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God. ⁵ Because just as the sufferings of the Christ flow over into us, so also our encouragement overflows, through Christ. ⁶ Now then, if we are afflicted, it is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, that are effective for enduring the same sufferings that we also are suffering

²⁸ —there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus —

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and \up6 3)\up0 what the exceeding greatness of His power into us who are believing, according to the demonstration of the extent of His might

⁹ and to enlighten all as to the program of the secret that from the beginning of the ages has been hidden by the God who created all things through Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ to the intent that now, through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms,

²² whom I have sent to you for this very purpose: that you may know our circumstances and that he may comfort your hearts.

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship from the Spirit, if any tenderness and acts of compassion,

⁸ Yes indeed, in fact I actually consider everything to be a loss for the sake of the excelling thing, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord —for His sake I have already lost everything (and consider it as trash), so that I may gain Christ

⁹ For this very reason, since the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the real knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

¹⁵ He is the visible representation of the invisible God, ‘Firstborn’ over all creation, ¹⁶ because by Him all things were created —those in the heavens and those on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ Yes, He is before all, and in Him all things subsist.

²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory;

¹⁴ And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

⁸ I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and encourage your hearts,

⁵ You see, our Gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with complete certainty (of course you know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake).

² and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, also our fellow worker in the Gospel of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brothers: admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope, by grace, ¹⁷ encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and work.

¹⁶ Yes, the mystery of our religion is confessedly great: God was manifested in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, was revealed to angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed in the world, was received up in glory!

¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope;

²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water.

³ in that His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the real knowledge of the One who called us by glory and excellence,

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.

¹⁸ Rather, may you grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and into the eternal day. Amen. ¹⁹ —yes, by this we know that we are of the Truth and may put our hearts at ease in His presence,

¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

⁷ actually there are three who bear witness