Verse 5

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
  • 1 Thess 2:17 : 17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
  • 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 For I most assuredly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Chr 29:35 : 35 Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of Yahweh was set in order.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
  • Col 2:1 : 1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those 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 steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.