Colossians 2:1

New English Translation

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.

Cross References

Genesis 30:8

Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

Luke 22:44

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

Acts 20:25

“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

Acts 20:38

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

Philippians 1:30

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

Colossians 1:29

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.

Hebrews 5:7

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests 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 devotion.

1 Peter 1:8

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Revelation 1:11

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