Colossians 4:12 Cross References
Colossians 4:12
12: Epaphras, from your city, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident of the whole will of God.
Romans 15:30
- Dear brothers and sisters, I urge you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Do this because of your love for me, given to you by the Holy Spirit.
Philemon 1:23
- Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings.
Colossians 1:28
- So everywhere we go, we tell everyone about Christ. We warn them and teach them with all the wisdom God has given us, for we want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ.
Colossians 1:7
- Epaphras, our much loved co-worker, was the one who brought you the Good News. He is Christ's faithful servant, and he is helping us in your place.
Romans 15:14
- I am fully convinced, dear brothers and sisters, that you are full of goodness. You know these things so well that you are able to teach others all about them.
Colossians 1:9
- So we have continued praying for you ever since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.
2 Peter 1:1
- This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to all of you who share the same precious faith we have, faith given to us by Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, who makes us right with God.
Galatians 4:19
- But oh, my dear children! I feel as if I am going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.
1 Corinthians 14:20
- Dear brothers and sisters, don't be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature and wise in understanding matters of this kind.
John 12:26
- All those who want to be my disciples must come and follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And if they follow me, the Father will honor them.
2 Corinthians 13:11
- Dear brothers and sisters, I close my letter with these last words: Rejoice. Change your ways. Encourage each other. Live in harmony and peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.
Colossians 1:22
- yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Matthew 5:48
- But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.
1 Corinthians 2:6
- Yet when I am among mature Christians, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world, and not the kind that appeals to the rulers of this world, who are being brought to nothing.
Galatians 1:10
- Obviously, I'm not trying to be a people pleaser! No, I am trying to please God. If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ's servant.
Hebrews 5:14
- Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.
- So let us stop going over the basics of Christianity again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don't need to start all over again with the importance of turning away from evil deeds and placing our faith in God.
James 1:1
- This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is written to Jewish Christians scattered among the nations. Greetings!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
- Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
Luke 22:44
- He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.
Colossians 2:1
- I want you to know how much I have agonized for you and for the church at Laodicea, and for many other friends who have never known me personally.
- My goal is that they will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have full confidence because they have complete understanding of God's secret plan, which is Christ himself.
- In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- I am telling you this so that no one will be able to deceive you with persuasive arguments.
- For though I am far away from you, my heart is with you. And I am very happy because you are living as you should and because of your strong faith in Christ.
Hebrews 5:7
- While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could deliver him out of death. And God heard his prayers because of his reverence for God.
Colossians 4:1
- You slave owners must be just and fair to your slaves. Remember that you also have a Master--in heaven.
- Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
Philippians 3:12
- I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection! But I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ Jesus saved me for and wants me to be.
- No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
- I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.
- I hope all of you who are mature Christians will agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you.
James 5:16
- Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.
Jude 1:24
- And now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling, and who will bring you into his glorious presence innocent of sin and with great joy.