Colossians 2:1 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

More versions

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ FOR I want you to know how great is my solicitude for you [how severe an inward struggle I am engaged in for you] and for those [believers] at Laodicea, and for all who [like yourselves] have never seen my face and known me personally.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Common English Bible

¹ I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who haven’t known me personally.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ For I want you to know the kind of solicitude that I have for you, and for those who are at Laodicea, as well as for those who have not seen my face in the flesh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ For I would have you know, what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea, and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

English Standard Version 2016

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,

Colossians 2:1 Cross References

Genesis 30:8

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Luke 22:44

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Philippians 1:30

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Colossians 1:24

who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

Colossians 1:29

whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Colossians 2:5

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

1 Peter 1:8

whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Revelation 1:11

saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.