Colossians 2:19

The false teacher fails to hold fast to Christ, the Head from whom the whole body grows. Spiritual growth comes only from connection to Christ.

Cross-references · 29

• Eph 4:15–16But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• John 15:4–6Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• Col 2:2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
• 1 Tim 2:4–6Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
• Rom 12:4–5For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
• 1 Th 3:12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• 1 Th 4:10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 1 Cor 3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• Rom 11:17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
• 1 Cor 12:12–27For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
• Col 1:10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 2:6–9As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
• Acts 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
• Gal 1:6–9I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
• Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• 1 Cor 10:16–17The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Gal 5:2–4Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
• Phil 2:2–5Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
• Col 1:18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
• Ps 139:15–16My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
• Eph 1:22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
• Eph 5:29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
• John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Eph 4:3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• Job 19:9–12He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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