Colossians 1:12

Weymouth NT

and give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the inheritance of God's people in Light.

Cross References

Matthew 25:34

»Then the King will say to those at His right,« `Come, my Father's blessed ones, receive your inheritance of the Kingdom which has been divinely intended for you ever since the creation of the world.

John 14:6

»I am the Way,« replied Jesus, »and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 20:17

»Do not cling to me,« said Jesus, »for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'«

John 4:23

But a time is coming –nay, has already come– when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

Acts 20:32

»And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace. He is able to build you up and to give you your inheritance among His people.«

Acts 26:18

that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified through faith in Me.'

Romans 11:17

And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree,

Romans 15:27

Yes, they have kindly done this, and, in fact, it was a debt they owed them. For seeing that the Gentiles have been admitted in to partnership with the Jews in their spiritual blessings, they in turn are under an obligation to render sacred service to the Jews in temporal things.

Romans 8:17

and if children, then heirs too–heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings, in order that we may also be sharers in His glory.

Romans 9:23

in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory,

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet we have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we and all things exist.

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no wonder. Satan, their master, can disguise himself as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 5:5

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will,

Ephesians 1:18

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,

Ephesians 2:18

because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.

Ephesians 3:6

I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, and that they form one body with us, and have the same interest as we have in the promise which has been made good in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

Ephesians 4:6

and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all.

Ephesians 5:11

Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them;

Ephesians 5:20

Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Ephesians 5:4

Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting –they are all alike discreditable– and in place of these give thanks.

Ephesians 5:8

There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.

Colossians 2:2

in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.

Colossians 3:15

and let the peace which Christ gives settle all questionings in your hearts, to which peace indeed you were called as belonging to His one Body; and be thankful.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

Hebrews 12:23

to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born, whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness.

1 Peter 5:1

So I exhort the Elders among you–I who am their fellow Elder and have been an eye-witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and am also a sharer in the glory which is soon to be revealed.

1 John 1:3

that which we have seen and listened to we now announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship in it with us, and this fellowship with us is fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21:23

Nor has the city any need of the sun or of the moon, to give it light; for the glory of God has shone upon it and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes clean, that they may have a right to the Tree of Life, and may go through the gates into the city.

Revelation 22:5

And there will be no night there; and they have no need of lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will shine upon them, and they will be kings until the Ages of the Ages.«