Colossians 4:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you. He is always striving in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

Cross References

Matthew 5:48

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Luke 1:1

Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us,

Luke 22:44

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

John 12:26

Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.

Romans 15:14

I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

Romans 15:30

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf,

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Be restored; listen to my appeal; agree with one another; live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 4:19

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

Colossians 1:22

he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,

Colossians 1:28

It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Colossians 1:29

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

Colossians 1:7

This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 4:9

he is coming with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philemon 1:23

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

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.

James 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.

James 1:4

And let endurance complete its work, so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

2 Peter 1:1

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Jude 1:24

Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing,