Colossians 2:5

American Standard Version (1901)

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

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  • 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 But let all things be done decently and in order.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
  • 1 Thess 2:17 : 17 But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
  • 2 Chr 29:35 : 35 And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for every burnt-offering. So the service of the house of Jehovah was set in order.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order whensoever I come.
  • Col 2:1 : 1 For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
  • Ruth 1:18 : 18 And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Phil 1:24-27
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    24yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

    25And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;

    26that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

    27Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

  • Eph 1:15
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    15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,

  • 1 Cor 5:3-4
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    3For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

    4in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

  • Rom 1:11-12
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    11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

    12that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

  • Phlm 1:5-8
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    5hearing of thy love, and of the faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

    6that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.

    7For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • Col 2:1-2
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    1For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

    2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,

  • Phil 1:5
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    5for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

  • Phil 2:17-19
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    17Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

    18and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.

    19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

  • 2 Cor 5:6-8
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    6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

    7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

    8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

  • Col 1:24
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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

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    4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,

  • Col 2:6-7
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    6As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him,

    7rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

  • 2 Cor 2:3
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    3And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

  • Phil 1:7-8
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    7even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

    8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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    22The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.

  • Phil 1:18
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    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

  • 2 Cor 7:16
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    16I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

  • Col 2:4
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    4This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • Phil 2:12
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    12So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

  • 1 Thess 3:5
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    5For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    1Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

    2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • Phil 4:1
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    1Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

  • Phil 4:10
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    10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

  • Gal 4:20
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    20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 1 Cor 4:17
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    17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

  • Gal 4:18
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    18But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

  • Phil 2:2
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    2make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;