Colossians 2:1

Paul wants the Colossians to know how hard he strives for them and others he has never met. His pastoral concern reaches beyond personal acquaintance.

Cross-references · 18

• Col 1:29To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
• Phil 1:30since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.
• Col 4:12–13Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.
• Rev 3:14–22To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation.
• Rev 1:11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
• Acts 20:38They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
• Hos 12:3–4In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
• Gen 32:24–30So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Col 2:5For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
• Gal 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
• Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
• Acts 20:25Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again.
• Col 4:15–16Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nympha and the church that meets at her house.
• 1 Pet 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
• Gen 30:8Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
• 1 Th 2:2As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposition, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God.

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