Colossians 3:12

As God's chosen and beloved, believers should clothe themselves in compassion, kindness, humility, and patience. The new life is adorned with Christlike virtues.

Cross-references · 40

• Eph 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
• Eph 4:2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
• 1 Jn 4:19We love because He first loved us.
• 2 Pet 1:5–8For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
• 2 Pet 1:10Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
• 1 Pet 3:8–11Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
• Rom 12:9–10Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
• 1 Th 5:15Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
• 1 Jn 3:14–20We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
• 2 Cor 6:6in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
• Jer 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
• 1 Th 1:3–6and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Ezek 16:8Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• 2 Tim 2:10For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
• Matt 24:31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
• Titus 3:4–6But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
• Phil 2:1–4Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• Rom 1:7To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
• Luke 18:7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
• Eph 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
• Mark 13:27And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
• Isa 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
• Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
• Phil 1:8God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
• Mark 13:22For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
• Isa 65:9And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
• Isa 45:4For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.
• Eph 2:4–5But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Rom 8:29–33For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Rom 11:5–7In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
• Matt 24:22If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
• Eph 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

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