Colossians 1:6

The gospel that reached Colossae is spreading and bearing fruit worldwide, just as it has among them since they grasped God's grace. The gospel is living and effective.

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• John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Rom 16:26—
• Rom 10:17–18So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
• 1 Pet 5:12Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
• Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
• Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Rom 1:13Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
• Mark 4:8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
• Matt 24:14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
• 1 Pet 1:2–3according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Acts 12:24But the word of God grew and multiplied.
• Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• John 4:23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
• 1 Cor 15:10–11But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Acts 16:14A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• Eph 4:23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Eph 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
• Mark 4:26–29He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
• 1 Th 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• Phil 4:17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• Acts 11:18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
• Eph 4:21if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
• Rom 15:28When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
• 2 Cor 10:14For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
• Eph 3:2if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

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