Colossians 3:3 Cross References - Goodspeed

³ For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God.

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.

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

²¹ For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

²⁴ I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

⁴⁰ yet you refuse to come to me for life.

³⁹ And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day. ⁴⁰ For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

²⁸ and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands. ²⁹ What my Father has intrusted to me is of more importance than everything else, and no one can tear anything out of the Father's hands. ³⁰ The Father and I are one."

¹⁹ In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

¹⁰ If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

²¹ so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

² Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

² For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

³⁴ who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us. ³⁵ Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword? ³⁶ As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered." ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor their hierarchies nor the present nor the future ³⁹ nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

¹⁴ A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

⁴⁵ This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

⁷ (for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)—

¹⁴ It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

⁷ Then, through your union with Christ Jesus, the peace of God, so far above any human thought, will guard your minds and thoughts.

⁵ and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel

³ that divine mystery in which all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found.

²⁰ If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

⁴ When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.

²⁵ Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead, ⁴ and to an imperishable, unsullied, and unfading inheritance, which is kept safe for you in heaven, ⁵ and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

⁴ yours must be the inner beauty of character, the imperishable attraction of a quiet and gentle spirit, which has great value in the sight of God.

² Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

¹⁷ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'