Colossians 4:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Epaphras, another servant of Jesus Christ from your group, sends his greetings. He constantly struggles for you in prayer. He prays that you will grow to be spiritually mature and have everything that God wants for you.

Cross References

Romans 15:30

Brothers and sisters, I beg you to help me in my work by praying to God for me. Do this because of our Lord Jesus and the love that the Spirit gives us.

Colossians 1:9

Since the day we heard these things about you, we have continued praying for you. This is what we pray: that God will make you completely sure of what he wants by giving you all the wisdom and spiritual understanding you need;

Philemon 1:23

Epaphras is a prisoner with me for Christ Jesus. He sends you his greetings.

Colossians 1:28

So we continue to tell people about Christ. We use all wisdom to counsel every person and teach every person. We are trying to bring everyone before God as people who have grown to be spiritually mature in Christ.

Colossians 1:7

You heard it from Epaphras, our dear friend and co-worker. He is a faithful servant of Christ for us.

2 Peter 1:1

Greetings from Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To all of you who share in the same valuable faith that we have. This faith was given to us because our God and Savior Jesus Christ always does what is good and right.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, I am in pain again over you, like a mother giving birth. I will feel this pain until people can look at you and see Christ.

Galatians 1:10

Now do you think I am trying to make people accept me? No, God is the one I am trying to please. Am I trying to please people? If I wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Romans 15:14

My brothers and sisters, I know without a doubt that you are full of goodness and have all the knowledge you need. So you are certainly able to counsel each other.

Jude 1:24

God is strong and can keep you from falling. He can bring you before his glory without any wrong in you and give you great joy.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for people who have grown up. From their experience they have learned to see the difference between good and evil.

Hebrews 5:7

While Jesus lived on earth he prayed to God, asking for help from the one who could save him from death. He prayed to God with loud cries and tears. And his prayers were answered because of his great respect for God.

Colossians 1:22

But now he has made you his friends again. He did this by the death Christ suffered while he was in his body. He did it so that he could present you to himself as people who are holy, blameless, and without anything that would make you guilty before him.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Now, brothers and sisters, be filled with joy. Try to make everything right, and do what I have asked you to do. Agree with each other, and live in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, don’t think like children. In evil things be like babies, but in your thinking you should be like full-grown adults.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We teach wisdom to people who are mature, but the wisdom we teach is not from this world. It is not the wisdom of the rulers of this world, who are losing their power.

John 12:26

Whoever serves me must follow me. My servants must be with me everywhere I am. My Father will give honor to anyone who serves me.

Matthew 5:48

What I am saying is that you must be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

James 5:16

So always tell each other the wrong things you have done. Then pray for each other. Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen.

James 1:1

Greetings from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To God’s people who are scattered all over the world.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

We pray that God himself, the God of peace, will make you pure—belonging only to him. We pray that your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—will be kept safe and be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Luke 22:44

Jesus was full of pain; he struggled hard in prayer. Sweat dripped from his face like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Luke 1:1

Most Honorable Theophilus: Many others have tried to give a report of the things that happened among us to complete God’s plan.

Colossians 1:29

To do this, I work and struggle using the great strength that Christ gives me. That strength is working in my life.

Colossians 4:9

I am sending him with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother from your group. They will tell you everything that has happened here.

James 1:4

If you let that patience work in you, the end result will be good. You will be mature and complete. You will be all that God wants you to be.