to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the Lord to glorify him.
Colossians 2:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. American Standard Version (1901) rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. Common English Bible Be rooted and built up in him, be established in faith, and overflow with thanksgiving just as you were taught. Catholic Public Domain Version Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving. |
to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the Lord to glorify him.
He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out towards a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us.
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
assuming you heard about him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus,
giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.
Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.
The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little while.
These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn #– #fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.
But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,