Colossians 2:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

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  • 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 let all things be done decently and in order.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;
  • 1 Thess 2:17 : 17 And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, 18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing: 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- ye being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Chr 29:35 : 35 And also, burnt-offerings `are' in abundance, with fat of the peace-offerings, and with oblations for the burnt-offering; and the service of the house of Jehovah is established,
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God `is' its spirit.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.
  • Col 2:1 : 1 For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
  • Ruth 1:18 : 18 And she seeth that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceaseth to speak unto her;

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