Colossians 2:9

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For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

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  • Col 1:19 : 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
  • John 10:30 : 30 The Father and I are one.”
  • John 10:38 : 38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.
  • 1 John 5:7 : 7 For there are three that testify,
  • John 14:9-9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
  • 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.
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 For this reason the Lord himself will give you a confirming sign. Look, this young woman is about to conceive and will give birth to a son. You, young woman, will name him Immanuel.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means“God with us.”
  • Luke 3:22 : 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven,“You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”
  • John 17:21 : 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  • Col 2:2-3 : 2 My 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, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
  • John 2:21 : 21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

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    10and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

    11In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

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    15The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

    16for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him– all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers– all things were created through him and for him.

    17He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.

    18He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

    19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

    20and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross– through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

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    19and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

    20This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

    21far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

    22And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things.

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

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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,

    3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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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,

    10toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth.

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    27God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

    28We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

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    18you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

    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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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

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    17these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!

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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

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    9and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

    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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    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

    22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

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    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

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    5You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

    6who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

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    2complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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    6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

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    5For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–

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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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    22but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–

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    23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

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    15But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

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    16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

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    5For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

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    10and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

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    12Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

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    15Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

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    3for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.