| 1 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, | Ro 1:1 1Co 1:1 2Co 1:1 Eph 1:1 |
| 2 | To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ [that are] at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. | Ps 16:3 1Co 1:2 Ga 3:9 Eph 1:1 |
| 3 | We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, | Ro 1:8 Ro 1:9 1Co 1:4 Eph 1:15 Php 1:3-5 Php 4:6 1Th 1:2 |
| 4 | having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints, | Col 1:9 2Co 7:7 Eph 1:15 1Th 3:6 3Jn 1:3 3Jn 1:4 |
| 5 | because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, | Col 1:23 Col 1:27 Ac 23:6 Ac 24:15 Ac 26:6 Ac 26:7 1Co 13:13 1Co 15:19 Ga 5:5 Eph 1:18 Eph 1:19 2Th 2:16 Heb 7:19 1Pe 3:15 1Jn 3:3 |
| 6 | which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth; | Col 1:23 Ps 98:3 Mt 24:14 Mt 28:19 Mk 16:15 Ro 10:18 Ro 15:19 Ro 16:26 2Co 10:14 |
| 7 | even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, | Col 4:12 Phm 1:23 |
| 8 | who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. | Col 1:4 Ro 5:5 Ro 15:30 Ga 5:22 2Ti 1:7 1Pe 1:22 |
| 9 | For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, | Col 1:3 Col 1:4 Col 1:6 Ro 1:8-10 Eph 1:15 Eph 1:16 |
| 10 | to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; | Col 2:6 Col 4:5 Mic 4:5 Ro 4:12 Ro 6:4 Eph 4:1 Eph 5:2 Eph 5:15 Php 1:27 1Th 2:12 |
| 11 | strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy; | Isa 45:24 2Co 12:9 Eph 3:16 Eph 6:10 Php 4:13 |
| 12 | giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; | Col 3:15 Col 3:17 1Ch 29:20 Ps 79:13 Ps 107:21 Ps 107:22 Ps 116:7 Dn 2:23 Eph 5:4 Eph 5:20 |
| 13 | who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; | Isa 49:24 Isa 49:25 Isa 53:12 Mt 12:29 Mt 12:30 Ac 26:18 Heb 2:14 |
| 14 | in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: | Mt 20:28 Ac 20:28 Ro 3:24 Ro 3:25 Ga 3:13 Eph 1:7 Eph 5:2 1Ti 2:6 Tit 2:14 Heb 9:12 Heb 9:22 Heb 10:12-14 1Pe 1:19 1Pe 1:20 1Pe 3:18 1Jn 2:2 Rev 1:5 Rev 5:9 Rev 14:4 |
| 15 | who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; | Ex 24:10 Nm 12:8 Ezk 1:26-28 Jn 1:18 Jn 14:9 Jn 15:24 2Co 4:4 2Co 4:6 Php 2:6 Heb 1:3 |
| 16 | for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; | Col 1:15 Ps 102:25-27 Isa 40:9-12 Isa 44:24 Jn 1:3 1Co 8:6 Eph 3:9 Heb 1:2 Heb 1:10-12 Heb 3:3 Heb 3:4 |
| 17 | and he is before all things, and in him all things consist. | Col 1:15 Pr 8:22 Pr 8:23 Isa 43:11-13 Isa 44:6 Mic 5:2 Jn 1:1-3 Jn 8:58 Jn 17:5 1Co 8:6 Heb 13:8 Rev 1:8 Rev 1:11 Rev 1:17 Rev 2:8 |
| 18 | And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. | Col 1:24 Col 2:10-14 1Co 11:3 Eph 1:10 Eph 1:22 Eph 1:23 Eph 4:15 Eph 4:16 Eph 5:23 |
| 19 | For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell; | Col 2:3 Col 2:9 Col 3:11 Mt 11:25-27 Lk 10:21 Jn 1:16 Jn 3:34 Eph 1:3 Eph 1:23 Eph 4:10 |
| 20 | and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens. | Col 1:21 Col 1:22 Lv 6:30 Ps 85:10 Ps 85:11 Isa 9:6 Isa 9:7 Ezk 45:17-20 Dn 9:24-26 Mic 5:2 Mic 5:5 Zc 9:9 Zc 9:10 Lk 2:14 Ac 10:30 Ro 5:1 2Co 5:19-21 Eph 2:13-17 Heb 13:20 Heb 13:21 1Jn 4:9 1Jn 4:10 |
| 21 | And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, | Ro 1:30 Ro 5:9 Ro 5:10 Ro 8:7 Ro 8:8 1Co 6:9-11 Eph 2:1 Eph 2:2 Eph 2:12 Eph 2:19 Eph 4:18 Tit 3:3-7 Jm 4:4 |
| 22 | yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him: | Ro 7:4 Eph 2:15 Eph 2:16 Heb 10:10 Heb 10:20 |
| 23 | if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister. | Ps 92:13 Ps 92:14 Ps 125:5 Ezk 18:26 Hos 6:3 Hos 6:4 Zep 1:6 Mt 24:13 Lk 8:13-15 Lk 22:32 Jn 8:30-32 Jn 15:9 Jn 15:10 Ac 11:23 Ac 14:22 Ro 2:7 Ga 4:11 Ga 5:7 Ga 6:9 1Th 3:5 Heb 3:6 Heb 3:14 Heb 4:14 Heb 10:38 1Pe 1:5 2Pe 2:18-22 1Jn 2:27 Rev 2:10 |
| 24 | Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body`s sake, which is the church; | Mt 5:11 Mt 5:12 Ac 5:41 Ro 5:3 2Co 7:4 Eph 3:1 Eph 3:13 Php 2:17 Php 2:18 Jm 1:2 |
| 25 | whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God, | Col 1:23 1Th 3:2 1Ti 4:6 |
| 26 | [even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, | Ro 16:25 Ro 16:26 1Co 2:7 Eph 3:3-10 |
| 27 | to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: | 1Co 2:12-14 2Co 2:14 2Co 4:6 Ga 1:15 Ga 1:16 |
| 28 | whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; | Ac 3:20 Ac 5:42 Ac 8:5 Ac 8:35 Ac 9:20 Ac 10:36 Ac 11:20 Ac 13:38 Ac 17:3 Ac 17:18 Ro 16:25 1Co 1:23 1Co 15:12 2Co 4:5 2Co 10:14 Eph 3:8 Php 1:15-18 1Ti 3:16 |
| 29 | whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. | Col 4:12 1Co 15:10 2Co 5:9 2Co 6:5 2Co 11:23 Php 2:16 1Th 2:9 2Th 3:8 2Ti 2:10 Rev 2:3 |
