Colossians 2:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, reioycing & beholding your order, and your stedfast faith in Christ.

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  • 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren which are in the world.
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 Let all things be done honestly, and by order.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quite you like men, and be strong.
  • 1 Thess 2:17 : 17 For asmuch, brethren, as we were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in the heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For nowe are wee aliue, if ye stand fast in the Lorde.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden,
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 Which hope we haue, as an ancre of the soule, both sure and stedfast, and it entreth into that which is within the vaile,
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Ye therefore beloued, seeing ye know these thinges before, beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the errour of the wicked, and fall from your owne stedfastnesse. 18 But growe in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ: to him be glory both now and for euermore. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, aboundant alwayes in the worke of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 For I verely as absent in bodie, but present in spirit, haue determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing, 4 When ye are gathered together, and my spirit, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that such one, I say, by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ,
  • 2 Chr 29:35 : 35 And also the burnt offerings were many with the fat of the peace offrings & the drinke offrings for the burnt offring. so the seruice of the house of the Lord was set in order.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient & rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 And they continued in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and breaking of bread, and prayers.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 And if any man be hungry, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.
  • Col 2:1 : 1 For I woulde ye knewe what great fighting I haue for your sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as haue not seene my person in the flesh,
  • Ruth 1:18 : 18 Whe she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking vnto her.

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    24Neuerthelesse, to abide in the flesh, is more needefull for you.

    25And this am I sure of, that I shal abide, and with you all continue, for your furtherance and ioy of your faith,

    26That ye may more aboundantly reioyce in Iesvs Christ for me, by my comming to you againe.

    27Onely let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or els be absent, I may heare of your matters that ye continue in one Spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.

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    17Yea, and though I bee offered vp vpon the sacrifice, and seruice of your faith, I am glad, and reioyce with you all.

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    6Therefore we are always bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.

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    6As ye haue therefore receiued Christ Iesus the Lord, so walke in him,

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