Colossians 2:5

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the sprete: ioyenge, and beholdinge youre order and the stedfastnes of youre faith in Christ.

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  • 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 whome resiste stedfast in the faith, and knowe, that youre brethren in the worlde haue euen the same affliccions.
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 Let all thinges be done honestly and in order.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stonde fast in the faith, quyte you like men, and be stronge:
  • 1 Thess 2:17 : 17 But we (brethren) for as moch as we haue bene kepte from you for a season, as concernynge the bodely presence, but not in the hert, we haue haisted the more with greate desyre to se you personally.
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For now are we alyue, yf ye stonde stedfast in ye LORDE.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are become partakers of Christ, yf we kepe sure vnto ye ende the begynnynge of the substace,
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 which (hope) we haue as a sure and stedfast anker of oure soule. Which (hope) also entreth in, in to those thinges that are within ye vayle,
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Ye therfore beloued, seynge ye knowe it before hande, bewarre, lest ye also be plucte awaye thorow the erroure of ye wicked, and fall from yor owne stedfastnes. 18 But growe in grace, and in the knowlege of oure LORDE and Sauioure Iesus Christ. To him be prayse now and for euer, Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therfore my deare brethre, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, & all waye riche in the worke of the LORDE, for as moch as ye knowe, that youre laboure is not in vayne in the LORDE.
  • 1 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 For I verely as absent in body, but present in sprete, haue determyned allready as though I were present (cocernynge him that hath done this dede) 4 in ye name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, wha ye are gathered together with my sprete, and with the power of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,
  • 2 Chr 29:35 : 35 and many of the burnt offerynges were with the fat of the thankofferynges and drynkofferynges to the burntsacrifices. Thus was the ministracion of the house of the LORDE prepared.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 That they also might put their trust in God, & not to forget what he had done, but to kepe his comaundementes.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their herte was not whole with him, nether continued they in his couenaunt.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 They contynued in the Apostles doctryne, and in the felashippe, and in breakynge of bred, and in prayer.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 But yf eny man honger, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto codempnacion. As for other thinges, I wil set them in order whan I come.
  • Col 2:1 : 1 I wolde ye knewe what fightinge I haue for youre sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as haue not sene my personne in the flesh,
  • Ruth 1:18 : 18 Now whan she sawe, that she was stedfastly mynded to go with her, she spake nomore to her therof.

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