Colossians 2:19 Cross References - MNT

¹⁹ instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.

⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

²¹ that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

³² Now the multitude of the believers was of one heart and one soul, nor did any one of them say that any of his possessions was his own; but they had all things common.

¹⁷ Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches;

⁴ For even as we have many members in one body, and not all members have the same function; ⁵ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another.

¹⁰ Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a common participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a common participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.

¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ. ¹³ And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, "Because I am a hand, I am not part a part the body," would it not indeed be a part of the body? ¹⁶ Or if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," would it be any less a part of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were hearing? If all were hearing, where were smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased him. ¹⁹ If all were one member, where would the body be? ²⁰ But now there are many members, but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you". nor again of head to the feet, "I have no need for you." ²² On the contrary, we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker; ²³ upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. ²⁴ For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked; ²⁵ that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another. ²⁶ When one member suffers, all the others suffer with it; and when one member is honored, all the members are glad with it. ²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

⁶ I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ, ⁷ for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

² Listen to me! I, Paul, declare to you that if you are to continue to follow the rite of circumcision, Christ will be no profit to you. ³ I solemnly testify to every man who submits to circumcision that he obligates himself to keep the whole Law. ⁴ If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

²² God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

³ and endeavor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace.

¹⁵ but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ. ¹⁶ From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;

²⁷ Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

² I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose. ³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself. ⁴ Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

¹⁸ He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.

² May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

⁶ As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives; ⁷ since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving. ⁸ Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ. ⁹ For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

¹² Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.

¹⁰ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

³ I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

⁴ whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For God is one; and one is mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time.

⁸ Finally, you should all be harmonious, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tender-hearted, humble-minded;

¹⁸ But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.