Colossians 2:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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 1:19 : 19 For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;
John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
John 10:30 : 30 I and the Father are one.
John 10:38 : 38 But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.
1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
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.
2 Cor 5:19 : 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
1 John 5:7 : 7 And it is {G5140} the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
John 14:9-9 : 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; {G2532} how sayest thou, Show us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father {G3588} abiding in me doeth his works.
John 14:20 : 20 In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Matt 1:23 : 23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.
Luke 3:22 : 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, {G3004} Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
John 17:21 : 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be {G1520} in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Col 2:2-3 : 2 that 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 None of God, [even] Christ, 3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
John 2:21 : 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Col 2:10-11
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10and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:
11in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Col 1:15-20
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15who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;
17and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;
20and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.
Eph 1:19-23
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19and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
20which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly [places],
21far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
23which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Col 2:2-3
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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 None of God, [even] Christ,
3in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
Col 2:8
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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:
Eph 1:8-10
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8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
9making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
10unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, [I say,]
Col 1:27-28
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27to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
Eph 3:18-19
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18may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
Col 2:19
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19and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.
Col 2:17
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17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
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:
Eph 3:9-10
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9and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
10to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Eph 2:21-22
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21in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
22in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Eph 4:13
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13till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Phil 2:5-6
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5Have this {G5426} mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Eph 4:10
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10He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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;
Rom 8:9
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9But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Eph 4:6
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6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in {G5213} all.
1 Cor 1:5
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5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
Phil 1:11
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11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Col 1:22
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22yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable None before him:
1 Cor 3:23
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23and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Eph 4:15
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15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
Col 3:16
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16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
Eph 1:3
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3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:
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;
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.
Col 3:10
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10and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Col 4:12
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12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
Col 2:15
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15having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 3:3
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3For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.