Colossians 2:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you and for those in Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face.

Cross References

Genesis 30:8

Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed,” so she named him Naphtali.

Luke 22:44

In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]]

Acts 20:25

“And now I know that none of you, among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

Acts 20:38

grieving especially because of what he had said, that they would not see him again. Then they brought him to the ship.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Philippians 1:30

since you are having the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Colossians 1:29

For this I toil and strive with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your orderly conduct and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

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

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up 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 reverent submission.

1 Peter 1:8

Although you have not seen him, you love him, and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and 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, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”