Colossians 1:23

This blessing holds if they continue steadfast in the faith and the gospel hope. Genuine faith perseveres.

Cross-references · 40

• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Matt 24:13–14But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Col 1:5–6because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
• Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Heb 6:19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
• John 15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• Acts 2:5Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
• John 8:30–32As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
• Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Luke 22:32but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
• 2 Pet 2:18–22For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Luke 8:13–15Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Col 1:25of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,
• Matt 7:24–25“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
• 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Heb 4:14Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
• 2 Cor 5:18–20But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
• Eph 3:7–8of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Gal 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 1 Jn 3:1–3See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• Ezek 18:26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Acts 1:17For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
• Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
• Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
• Acts 4:12There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
• 1 Cor 4:1–3So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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