Colossians 2:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For though I be 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 resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 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 taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly 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 made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Chr 29:35 : 35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD 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 stedfast in his covenant.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
  • Col 2:1 : 1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
  • Ruth 1:18 : 18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

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