Bible Cross References
Epaphras
Colossians 1:7
even as you also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
Philemon 1:23
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
a servant
John 12:26
If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, My Father will honor him.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
James 1:1
1 Epistle of JACOB 0 -the VW-edition name as properly derived from the Greek (Iakobos) Jacob, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
always
Colossians 4:2
Be devoted to prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;
Luke 22:44
And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, for whom I travail again until Christ is formed in you,
Hebrews 5:7
who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who had the power to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,
James 5:16
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty.
labouring
Colossians 2:1-23
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For I want you to know what a great struggle I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
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that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full true knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
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in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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Now this I say that no one should delude you with persuasive words.
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For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
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As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
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being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
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Beware that no one rob you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the traditions of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
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For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
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and you are made full in Him, who is the Head of all rule and authority.
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In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
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buried with Him in immersion, in which you also were raised with Him through the faith of the working of God, who raised Him out from the dead.
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And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
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having blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
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having disarmed rulers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
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So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
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which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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Let no one condemn you, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, being puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,
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and not holding fast to the Head; from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
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Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to decrees;
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Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle;
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which all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
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These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-devised worship, false humility, and severity in abuse of the body, but are of no value against gratification of the flesh.
that
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.
Romans 15:30
Now I exhort you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf,
See on ch
Colossians 1:9
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the full true knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Colossians 1:22
in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and above reproach in His sight;
Colossians 1:28
Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect.
1 Corinthians 2:6
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brethren, rejoice. Become complete. Be encouraged, be of one mind, be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Philippians 3:12-15
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Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold, since Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
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Brethren, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and stretching forward to those things which are ahead,
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I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Therefore let us, as many as are complete, be of this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their understanding exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore, leaving the discussion of the rudiments concerning Christ, let us move along to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Jude 1:24
Now to Him who has the power to keep you from stumbling, and to present you without blemish before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
complete
Romans 15:14
Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.