Colossians 2:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As therefore ye {G3880} received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him,

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Col 1:10 : 10 {G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
1 John 2:6 : 6 he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
Col 3:17 : 17 And {G3748} whatsoever ye do, {G4160} in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
2 John 1:8-9 : 8 Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, {G5547} the same hath both the Father and the Son.
Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
Phil 1:27 : 27 Only 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;
1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.
1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
Isa 2:5 : 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
Mic 4:2 : 2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;
Matt 10:40 : 40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
John 1:12-13 : 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 13:20 : 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receiveth {G5100} whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
2 Cor 5:7 : 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight);
Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Col 2:7-8
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7rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding {G846} in thanksgiving.
8Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
1 John 2:6
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6he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
1 Thess 4:1-2
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1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
2For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
Eph 4:20-21
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20But ye did not so learn Christ;
21if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
1 Thess 2:12-14
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12to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
13And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
1 Cor 1:6
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6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1 Thess 1:6
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6And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
Phil 3:16-17
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16only, {G3739} whereunto we have attained, by that same [rule] let us {G5426} walk.
17Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
Col 2:5
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5For 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.
Rom 15:7
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7Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.
1 Cor 11:1
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1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Eph 4:1
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1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
Eph 4:17
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17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Col 3:7
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7wherein {G1722} ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;
Eph 5:8
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8For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
Col 1:6-7
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6which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
7even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
Eph 5:1-2
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1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
Col 1:10
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10{G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Eph 2:1-2
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1And you [did he make alive,] when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
2wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
2 Thess 3:6
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6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.
Col 2:20
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20{G3767} If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
2 Thess 2:15
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15So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
2 Tim 2:1
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1Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27
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27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.
Eph 5:15
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15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
Rom 6:4
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4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
2 Thess 1:12
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12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 John 1:6
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6And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
1 Cor 1:30
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30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
Rom 6:11
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11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead {G3303} unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
Eph 3:17
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17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
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;
Gal 1:6
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6I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;
2 Cor 6:1
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1And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
1 Cor 6:11
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11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Gal 5:25
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25If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
2 Cor 5:7
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7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);
1 Cor 4:16
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16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
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,
Eph 2:10
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10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Phlm 1:6
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6that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.