Colossians 2:19 Cross References - NSB

¹⁹ not holding fast to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, grows with the growth from God.

⁹ »He stripped me of my honor. He took the crown off my head. ¹⁰ »He beats me down on every side until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree. ¹¹ »He is very angry with me. He considers me his enemy. ¹² »His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me. They camp around my tent.

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo and all were written in your book; the days ordained for me. Even this before one had taken place.

⁴ »Remain with me, and I with you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself. It must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me. ⁵ »I am the vine and you are the branches. He that remains with me, and I with him, the same bears much fruit. You can do nothing apart from me. ⁶ »If a man does not remain with me, he is removed as a branch, and withers. They gather them and throw them into the fire where they are burned (destroyed) (consumed).

²¹ »May they all be united (in agreement) as one. Just as you, Father, are with me, and I am with you. Help them be united with us! That way the world may believe that you sent me.

³² The congregation that believed was of one heart and mind. No one claimed his or her own possessions for everything was common property.

¹⁷ Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.

⁴ For we have many members in one body and all members do not have the same function. ⁵ These many members are one body in Christ, and every one, individually, is a member one of the other.

¹⁰ I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there are no divisions among you. You should be perfectly joined together (united) in the same mind and thought.

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

¹² For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many and are one body, so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; 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 not the hand, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁶ If the ear should say: »Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where is the smelling? ¹⁸ Has God set the members of the body, every one of them, just as it pleased him? ¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where would the body be? ²⁰ But now they are many members, yet they are one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, »I have no need of you:« nor again the head to the feet, »I have no need of you.« ²² Those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are necessary. ²³ And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability. ²⁴ For our acceptable parts have no need. But God has assembled the body together, having given more abundant honor to the part that was lacking. ²⁵ There should be no division in the body. So the members should have the same care for each other. ²⁶ When one member suffers all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing we bless, is it not the sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not the sharing of the body of Christ? ¹⁷ For we being many are one-bread and one-body. We are all partakers of that one bread.

² Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. ³ Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision. He is under obligation to obey the whole Law. ⁴ You who seek to be righteous by Law are separated from Christ. You have fallen away from grace.

²² He (God) put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the congregation,

³ Diligently try to keep the unity (oneness) of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

¹⁵ By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head. ¹⁶ The entire body is properly framed and fitted together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each individual part. It makes the body increase by building itself in love.

²⁹ No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.

¹⁰ Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

⁶ I am amazed that you so quickly turned away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ. You turned to different good news. ⁷ Yet this is not another good news. But there are some who trouble (agitate) you, and they would pervert the good news of Christ. ⁸ If we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any message other than that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (condemned) (expelled). ⁹ We said before and now I say again, if any man preaches to you any message other than what you received, let him be accursed!

²⁷ Let your manner of life be worthy of the good news about Christ. Whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your conduct, that you stand fast in one spirit (common purpose) (mental disposition) (vital principle), with one mind striving together for the faith of the good news.

² make my joy full by being of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, and of one purpose. ³ Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than you. ⁴ Look out for the interest of others and not only for your own personal interest. ⁵ Have this attitude (mind-set) (understanding) (mental state) in you that was also in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning (commencement), the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).

² I do this that they may be filled with courage and be united (knit) together in love. I have the full assurance that only true understanding brings. In this way they will accurately know God’s secret, which is Christ himself.

⁶ You have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord. Now walk (live) in union with him. ⁷ Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving. ⁸ See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ. ⁹ The fullness of divine nature lives in Christ’s bodily form. (Greek: theotes: essence and nature of God) (Only the Son of God could have divine attributes, the inherited qualities from the Father)

¹² And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.

¹⁰ Indeed, you do it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia: but we encourage you to increase more and more.

³ Our friends, we should thank God at all times for you. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the other abounds toward each other.

⁴ It is God’s desire that all men have salvation and come to the full (precise) (accurate) (correct) knowledge (Greek: epignosis: recognition, discernment) of the truth. ⁵ There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. ⁶ He gave himself as a ransom for all. A witness was to be given at the right time.

¹⁸ Grow in the unmerited favor and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

⁸ Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.