Colossians 2:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at La-odicea, and for all who have not seen my face,

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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;

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:

Colossians 2:1 Cross References

Genesis 30:8

Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed”; so she called his name Naphtali.

Luke 22:44

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom will see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

sorrowing most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!

Philippians 1:30

engaged in the same conflict which you saw and now hear to be mine.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Colossians 1:29

For this I toil, striving with all the energy which he mightily inspires within me.

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.

1 Peter 1:8

Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy.

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to La-odicea.”