Colossians 2:2 Cross References - Goodspeed

² that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ—

²⁵ At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

²⁷ Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one understands the Son but the Father, nor does anyone understand the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

²¹ At that moment he was inspired with joy, and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent, and revealing it to children! Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so! ²² Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

¹ In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine. ² It was he that was with God in the beginning. ³ Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

²³ so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

⁶⁹ and we believe and are satisfied that you are the Holy One of God."

³⁰ The Father and I are one."

³⁸ But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father."

⁹ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself. ¹¹ You must believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must believe because of the things themselves.

¹⁵ All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

³ And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

²¹ Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are, ²³ I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

³² There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

¹³ May God, the source of hope, fill you with perfect happiness and peace in your faith, so that you may have overflowing hope through the power of the holy Spirit.

²⁵ To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

¹² But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

⁴ He comforts me in all my trouble, so that I can comfort people who are in any trouble with the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God. ⁵ For if I have a liberal share of Christ's sufferings, through Christ I have a liberal share of comfort too. ⁶ If I am in trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation, and if I am comforted, it is for the sake of the comfort which you experience when you steadfastly endure such sufferings as I also have to bear.

²⁸ There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

¹⁷ The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself, ¹⁸ enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people, ¹⁹ and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength

⁹ and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things, ¹⁰ so that the many-sided wisdom of God may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

²² That is the very reason I am sending him, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts.

¹ So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,

⁸ Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ

⁹ That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

¹⁵ He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature, ¹⁶ for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.

²⁷ to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.

¹⁴ And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

⁸ I am sending him to you for the express purpose of letting you know my circumstances, and of cheering your hearts.

⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

² and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith

¹⁴ We beg you, brothers, warn the idlers, cheer up the despondent, keep hold of the weak, be patient with everybody.

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and kindly given us unfailing encouragement and a well-founded hope, ¹⁷ encourage you and strengthen you to do and say everything that is right.

¹⁶ No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

¹¹ But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope,

²² let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

³ For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

¹⁸ You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever. ¹⁹ From that we can be sure that we are on the side of the truth, and satisfy our consciences in God's sight,

¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts. ¹³ This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us—because he has given us some of his Spirit.

⁷ For there are three that testify to it,