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 truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• John 15:4–6Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• Col 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• 1 Tim 2:4–6who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
• Rom 12:4–5For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
• 1 Th 3:12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
• 1 Th 4:10for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• Rom 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
• 1 Cor 12:12–27For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
• 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;
• Col 2:6–9As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
• Gal 1:6–9I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• 1 Cor 10:16–17The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Gal 5:2–4Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
• Phil 2:2–5make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
• Col 1:18He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
• Ps 139:15–16My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
• Eph 1:22He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
• Eph 5:29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• Eph 4:3being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• Job 19:9–12He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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