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 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• Phil 1:30having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.
• Col 4:12–13Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Rev 3:14–22“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:
• Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
• Acts 20:38sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
• Hos 12:3–4In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
• Gen 32:24–30Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
• Col 2:5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Acts 20:25“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
• Col 4:15–16Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.
• 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
• Gen 30:8Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
• 1 Th 2:2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

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