Colossians 2:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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;

More versions

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

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

Luke 22:44

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

Acts 20:25

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

Acts 20:38

Sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I am again in travail 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

Now 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 church;

Colossians 1:29

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

Colossians 2:5

For though I am 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 having suffered before, and been shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

1 Peter 1:8

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

Revelation 1:11

saying, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.