Colossians 1:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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  • Rom 8:10 : 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
  • John 14:20 : 20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
  • Eph 3:16-17 : 16 I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 17 that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
  • 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
  • Rev 3:20 : 20 Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
  • Eph 1:17-18 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • Eph 2:22 : 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
  • Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My children– I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 Apostolic Ministry But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 He replied,“You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
  • Luke 17:21 : 21 nor will they say,‘Look, here it is!’ or‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
  • John 6:56 : 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.
  • John 14:17 : 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
  • John 15:2-5 : 2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit. 3 You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
  • John 17:22-23 : 22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one– 23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
  • John 17:26 : 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
  • Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
  • Gal 1:15-16 : 15 But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!
  • 1 Cor 2:12-14 : 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. 13 And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Rom 8:18-19 : 18 For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us. 19 For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
  • Eph 3:8-9 : 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ 9 and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things. 10 The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.
  • Phil 4:19 : 19 And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:5 : 5 Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
  • 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,
  • Ps 16:9-9 : 9 So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe. 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit. 11 You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.

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    17I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

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    8To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

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    10The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

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    3that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

    4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

    5(which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

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    8that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

    9He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

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    4since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

    5Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

    6that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

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    2My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

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    11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

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    7to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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    23Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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    19and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you will be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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    10so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

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    13For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.