Colossians 2:1

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 30:8

and Rachel said, “I have wrestled strenuously with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she named him Naphtali.

Luke 22:44

He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.]

Acts 20:25

“But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again.

Acts 20:38

for they were deeply distressed that he had said that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My children, for whom I am again in labor until Christ be formed in you!

Philippians 1:30

Yours is the same struggle as you saw in me and now hear about me.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,

Colossians 1:29

For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his power working within me.

Colossians 2:5

For even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing as I observe your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated, as you know, in Philippi, we drew courage through our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much struggle.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

1 Peter 1:8

Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Revelation 1:11

which said, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”