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Build / Matt 7:24-29
Jesus is the one who knows what life is and how it ought to be lived. Until we trust him enough for that to be our predominate way of thinking, we will still be building our own lives our own way instead…
Created about 1 month ago
Matthew 7:24 (NIV), Matthew 7:25 (NIV), Matthew 7:26 (NIV), Matthew 7:27 (NIV), Matthew 7:28 (NIV), Matthew 7:29 (NIV)
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Build / Matt 7:24-29
Jesus is the one who knows what life is and how it ought to be lived. Until we trust him enough for that to be our predominate way of thinking, we will still be building our own lives our own way instead…
Created about 1 month ago
Matthew 7:24 (NIV), Matthew 7:25 (NIV), Matthew 7:26 (NIV), Matthew 7:27 (NIV), Matthew 7:28 (NIV)
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Effected by the Resurrection / John 20:19-31
No matter how expansive and wonderful the effects of Jesus life, death and resurrection are, we can live like they aren’t true. We can be unaffected. So Jesus comes to help us. His presence and words…
Created about 1 month ago
John 20:19 (NIV), John 20:20 (NIV), John 20:21 (NIV), John 20:23 (NIV), John 20:24 (NIV), John 20:25 (NIV), John 20:26 (NIV), John 20:27 (NIV), John 20:28 (NIV), John 20:29 (NIV), John 20:30 (NIV), John 20:31 (NIV)
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Do Good / Matt 7:1-12
People are of such great value. Even though we should also value and take care of all God has made, there is something unique and good about a person that sets them apart. The Bible calls it the image…
Created about 1 month ago
Matthew 7:1 (NIV), Matthew 7:2 (NIV), Matthew 7:3 (NIV), Matthew 7:4 (NIV), Matthew 7:5 (NIV), Matthew 7:6 (NIV), Matthew 7:7 (NIV), Matthew 7:8 (NIV), Matthew 7:9 (NIV), Matthew 7:10 (NIV), Matthew 7:11 (NIV), Matthew 7:12 (NIV)
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The resurrection life shared by Jesus with us / Matt 28
The resurrection of Jesus is a profound living of life that can’t be defeated or held back by anything. What Jesus is doing is living life, real life, life like it ought to be. What he has made available…
Created about 1 month ago
Matthew 28:1 (NIV), Matthew 28:2 (NIV), Matthew 28:3 (NIV), Matthew 28:4 (NIV), Matthew 28:5 (NIV), Matthew 28:6 (NIV), Matthew 28:7 (NIV), Matthew 28:8 (NIV), Matthew 28:9 (NIV), Matthew 28:10 (NIV), Matthew 28:11 (NIV), Matthew 28:12 (NIV), Matthew 28:13 (NIV), Matthew 28:14 (NIV), Matthew 28:15 (NIV), Matthew 28:16 (NIV), Matthew 28:17 (NIV), Matthew 28:18 (NIV), Matthew 28:19 (NIV), Matthew 28:20 (NIV)
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When victory looks like failure / Matt 27:55-66
Jesus was confirmed by the voice of Father after his baptism saying this was his son and he was pleased with him. Jesus got some practice living with opposition in the desert, fasting to learn to say…
Created 2 months ago
Matthew 27:55 (NIV), Matthew 27:56 (NIV), Matthew 27:57 (NIV), Matthew 27:58 (NIV), Matthew 27:59 (NIV), Matthew 27:60 (NIV), Matthew 27:61 (NIV), Matthew 27:62 (NIV), Matthew 27:63 (NIV), Matthew 27:64 (NIV), Matthew 27:65 (NIV), Matthew 27:66 (NIV)
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Jesus is amazing / Matt 27:32-54
Jesus is amazing. We are awestruck by Jesus. It would be enough for us to see that he was able to bear such torture and not sin. It is beyond comprehension that he would not get self-absorbed and angry,…
Created 3 months ago
Matthew 27:27 (NIV), Matthew 27:28 (NIV), Matthew 27:29 (NIV), Matthew 27:30 (NIV), Matthew 27:31 (NIV), Matthew 27:32 (NIV), Matthew 27:33 (NIV), Matthew 27:34 (NIV), Matthew 27:35 (NIV), Matthew 27:36 (NIV)
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More than we can imagine / Matt 27:15-31
This episode is one of the hardest to read in the scriptures. We don’t want to think that humanity is capable of being so inhuman. Becoming able to unleash evil on society by releasing Barabbas and instead…
Created 3 months ago
Matthew 27:15 (NIV), Matthew 27:16 (NIV), Matthew 27:17 (NIV), Matthew 27:18 (NIV), Matthew 27:19 (NIV), Matthew 27:20 (NIV), Matthew 27:21 (NIV), Matthew 27:22 (NIV), Matthew 27:23 (NIV), Matthew 27:24 (NIV), Matthew 27:25 (NIV), Matthew 27:26 (NIV), Matthew 27:27 (NIV), Matthew 27:28 (NIV), Matthew 27:29 (NIV), Matthew 27:30 (NIV), Matthew 27:31 (NIV)
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Missing it / Matt 27:1-14
A tragedy of errors is no obstacle for God’s plans to be accomplished. Humans are so capable of foolishness. The religious leaders bound Jesus (as if he were going to lash out at them) and took him to…
Created 3 months ago
Matthew 27:1 (KJV), Matthew 27:2 (KJV), Matthew 27:3 (KJV), Matthew 27:4 (KJV), Matthew 27:5 (KJV), Matthew 27:6 (KJV), Matthew 27:7 (KJV), Matthew 27:8 (KJV), Matthew 27:9 (KJV), Matthew 27:10 (KJV), Matthew 27:11 (KJV), Matthew 27:12 (KJV), Matthew 27:13 (KJV), Matthew 27:14 (KJV)
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Identification / Matt 26:57-75
The Bible isn’t meant to provide us with things to know to pass the quiz later so that we can have the privileges of the insiders. No, we need to identify with the people in the story in order to find…
Created 3 months ago
Matthew 26:57 (NIV), Matthew 26:58 (NIV), Matthew 26:59 (NIV), Matthew 26:60 (NIV), Matthew 26:61 (NIV), Matthew 26:62 (NIV), Matthew 26:63 (NIV), Matthew 26:64 (NIV), Matthew 26:65 (NIV), Matthew 26:66 (NIV), Matthew 26:67 (NIV), Matthew 26:68 (NIV), Matthew 26:69 (NIV), Matthew 26:70 (NIV), Matthew 26:71 (NIV), Matthew 26:72 (NIV), Matthew 26:73 (NIV), Matthew 26:74 (NIV), Matthew 26:75 (NIV)
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Deliverance in an unexpected victory / Matt 26:17-35
Jesus chose to tell his disciples (and us through their story) about the victory he would win during the meal that celebrates God’s deliverance of his people from the hands of the Egyptians. They didn’t…
Created 4 months ago
Matthew 26:17 (NIV), Matthew 26:18 (NIV), Matthew 26:19 (NIV), Matthew 26:20 (NIV), Matthew 26:21 (NIV), Matthew 26:22 (NIV), Matthew 26:23 (NIV), Matthew 26:24 (NIV), Matthew 26:25 (NIV), Matthew 26:26 (NIV), Matthew 26:27 (NIV), Matthew 26:28 (NIV), Matthew 26:29 (NIV), Matthew 26:30 (NIV), Matthew 26:31 (NIV), Matthew 26:32 (NIV), Matthew 26:33 (NIV), Matthew 26:34 (NIV), Matthew 26:35 (NIV)
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Choosing Jesus / Matt 26:1-16
Jesus knows about what is before him. He chooses to win our victories by his own betrayal, humiliation, torture and agonizing death. He had time to escape. He had powers to call on to save him from it.…
Created 4 months ago
Matthew 26:1 (KJV), Matthew 26:2 (KJV), Matthew 26:3 (KJV), Matthew 26:4 (KJV), Matthew 26:5 (KJV), Matthew 26:6 (KJV), Matthew 26:7 (KJV), Matthew 26:8 (KJV), Matthew 26:9 (KJV), Matthew 26:10 (KJV), Matthew 26:11 (KJV), Matthew 26:12 (KJV), Matthew 26:13 (KJV), Matthew 26:14 (KJV), Matthew 26:15 (KJV), Matthew 26:16 (KJV)
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Nothing to lose, nothing to prove, nothing to gain / Matt 4:1-11
Sandwiched between Jesus baptism as confirmation of his identity with God’s voice from heaven and the glorious beginning of his ministry proclaiming that all God wanted for us and his world was now available,…
Created 4 months ago
Matthew 4:1 (NIV), Matthew 4:2 (NIV), Matthew 4:3 (NIV), Matthew 4:4 (NIV), Matthew 4:5 (NIV), Matthew 4:6 (NIV), Matthew 4:7 (NIV), Matthew 4:8 (NIV), Matthew 4:9 (NIV), Matthew 4:10 (NIV), Matthew 4:11 (NIV)
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Accepting the one needed / Matt 3
Jesus comes to us validated by God the Father (“This is the one in whom I am well pleased”) and the lineage of the prophets completed in John preparing the way of the Lord for the one who baptizes with…
Created 4 months ago
Matthew 3:1 (NIV), Matthew 3:2 (NIV), Matthew 3:3 (NIV), Matthew 3:4 (NIV), Matthew 3:5 (NIV), Matthew 3:6 (NIV), Matthew 3:7 (NIV), Matthew 3:8 (NIV), Matthew 3:9 (NIV), Matthew 3:10 (NIV), Matthew 3:11 (NIV), Matthew 3:12 (NIV), Matthew 3:13 (NIV), Matthew 3:14 (NIV), Matthew 3:15 (NIV), Matthew 3:16 (NIV), Matthew 3:17 (NIV)
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God with us, and hardship? / Matt 1:18-25, 2:16-23
We see him named Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and see the prophecy fulfilled of God with us. We rejoice with the angel’s song and the shepherds hearing good news. We are amazed…
Created 5 months ago
Matthew 1:18 (NIV), Matthew 1:19 (NIV), Matthew 1:20 (NIV), Matthew 1:21 (NIV), Matthew 1:22 (NIV), Matthew 1:23 (NIV), Matthew 2:16 (NIV), Matthew 2:17 (NIV), Matthew 2:18 (NIV), Matthew 2:19 (NIV), Matthew 2:20 (NIV), Matthew 2:21 (NIV), Matthew 2:22 (NIV), Matthew 2:23 (NIV)
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Ordinary and out of the ordinary / Luke 2:1-21
“While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.” (vs. 6). It all sounds so ordinary. It is such a simple statement. We know, or course, it isn’t ordinary at all. No birth is really…
Created 6 months ago
Luke 2:1 (NIV), Luke 2:2 (NIV), Luke 2:4 (NIV), Luke 2:5 (NIV), Luke 2:6 (NIV), Luke 2:7 (NIV), Luke 2:8 (NIV), Luke 2:9 (NIV), Luke 2:10 (NIV), Luke 2:11 (NIV), Luke 2:12 (NIV), Luke 2:13 (NIV), Luke 2:14 (NIV), Luke 2:15 (NIV), Luke 2:16 (NIV), Luke 2:17 (NIV), Luke 2:18 (NIV), Luke 2:19 (NIV), Luke 2:20 (NIV), Luke 2:21 (NIV)
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Picturing the good Jesus can make us / Matt 5:17, 18, 21-32
Abstract talk about goodness doesn’t sink in to us enough for us to figure out how to live it. We need some specifics and Jesus obliges. He does it so creatively that it speaks to us on several levels.…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 5:17 (TNIV), Matthew 5:18 (TNIV), Matthew 5:21 (TNIV), Matthew 5:22 (TNIV), Matthew 5:23 (TNIV), Matthew 5:24 (TNIV), Matthew 5:25 (TNIV), Matthew 5:26 (TNIV), Matthew 5:27 (TNIV), Matthew 5:28 (TNIV), Matthew 5:29 (TNIV), Matthew 5:30 (TNIV), Matthew 5:31 (TNIV), Matthew 5:32 (TNIV)
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Joys (and hardships) of Jesus coming / Matt 1:18-2:12
The Christmas story captivates us with wonder. The very idea that God would send Jesus to be God with us so that we could know him in ways we never could have otherwise is beyond our comprehension. Born…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 1:18 (TNIV), Matthew 1:19 (TNIV), Matthew 1:20 (TNIV), Matthew 1:21 (TNIV), Matthew 1:22 (TNIV), Matthew 1:23 (TNIV), Matthew 1:24 (TNIV), Matthew 1:25 (TNIV), Matthew 2:1 (TNIV), Matthew 2:2 (TNIV), Matthew 2:3 (TNIV), Matthew 2:4 (TNIV), Matthew 2:5 (TNIV), Matthew 2:6 (TNIV), Matthew 2:7 (TNIV), Matthew 2:8 (TNIV), Matthew 2:9 (TNIV), Matthew 2:10 (TNIV), Matthew 2:11 (TNIV), Matthew 2:12 (TNIV)
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Incarnation / Matt 1
Matthew begins the telling of the Good News of the kingdom Jesus brought us with a genealogy, a list of people. It’s not just so we’ll know Jesus has the right lineage, or even to tell us the prophecies…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 1:1 (TNIV), Matthew 1:2 (TNIV), Matthew 1:3 (TNIV), Matthew 1:4 (TNIV), Matthew 1:5 (TNIV), Matthew 1:6 (TNIV), Matthew 1:7 (TNIV), Matthew 1:8 (TNIV), Matthew 1:9 (TNIV), Matthew 1:10 (TNIV), Matthew 1:11 (TNIV), Matthew 1:12 (TNIV), Matthew 1:13 (TNIV), Matthew 1:14 (TNIV), Matthew 1:15 (TNIV), Matthew 1:16 (TNIV), Matthew 1:17 (TNIV), Matthew 1:18 (TNIV), Matthew 1:19 (TNIV), Matthew 1:20 (TNIV), Matthew 1:21 (TNIV), Matthew 1:22 (TNIV), Matthew 1:23 (TNIV), Matthew 1:24 (TNIV), Matthew 1:25 (TNIV)
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Accomplished for us / Matt 5:17-22
22“But I tell you…” We need someone to tell us. We get so goofed up on this law/rules thing. We either get caught in rule keeping so that we can’t see life beyond trying to make ourselves good enough…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 5:17 (TNIV), Matthew 5:18 (TNIV), Matthew 5:19 (TNIV), Matthew 5:20 (TNIV), Matthew 5:21 (TNIV), Matthew 5:22 (TNIV)
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The blessing of being judged / Matt 25:31-46
We don’t like the idea of judgment as we often think of it. We think of someone being included and somebody getting left out. But what if judgment were more about knowing what God is creating more of…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 25:31 (NIV), Matthew 25:32 (NIV), Matthew 25:33 (NIV), Matthew 25:34 (NIV), Matthew 25:35 (NIV), Matthew 25:36 (NIV), Matthew 25:37 (NIV), Matthew 25:38 (NIV), Matthew 25:39 (NIV), Matthew 25:40 (NIV), Matthew 25:41 (NIV), Matthew 25:42 (NIV), Matthew 25:43 (NIV), Matthew 25:44 (NIV), Matthew 25:45 (NIV), Matthew 25:46 (NIV)
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Shine / Matt 5:13-16, 4:18-25
“You are the salt of the earth.” “You are the light of the world.” The point with salt and light is that we are enabled to have influence. There is something we are here to do, just like Jesus did. How…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 4:18 (TNIV), Matthew 4:19 (TNIV), Matthew 4:20 (TNIV), Matthew 4:21 (TNIV), Matthew 4:22 (TNIV), Matthew 4:23 (TNIV), Matthew 4:24 (TNIV), Matthew 4:25 (TNIV), Matthew 5:13 (TNIV), Matthew 5:14 (TNIV), Matthew 5:15 (TNIV), Matthew 5:16 (TNIV)
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Using what we’ve been given / Matt 25:14-30
We can use what we’ve been given to partner with God. Everything we have is something that God has given. What we are responsible for can be used to the benefit of people and the world, or wasted. That’s…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 25:14 (NIV), Matthew 25:15 (NIV), Matthew 25:16 (NIV), Matthew 25:17 (NIV), Matthew 25:18 (NIV), Matthew 25:19 (NIV), Matthew 25:20 (NIV), Matthew 25:21 (NIV), Matthew 25:22 (NIV), Matthew 25:23 (NIV), Matthew 25:24 (NIV), Matthew 25:25 (NIV), Matthew 25:26 (NIV), Matthew 25:27 (NIV), Matthew 25:28 (NIV), Matthew 25:29 (NIV), Matthew 25:30 (NIV)
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Blessed is the one who remains faithful / Matt 24:29-51
It is so helpful that Jesus warns us about hard times and hardships and offers us hope and the importance of continuing to trust him and live like all he has brought us and given us and promised us is…
Created 7 months ago
Matthew 24:29 (NIV), Matthew 24:30 (NIV), Matthew 24:31 (NIV), Matthew 24:32 (NIV), Matthew 24:33 (NIV), Matthew 24:34 (NIV), Matthew 24:35 (NIV), Matthew 24:36 (NIV), Matthew 24:37 (NIV), Matthew 24:38 (NIV), Matthew 24:39 (NIV), Matthew 24:40 (NIV), Matthew 24:41 (NIV), Matthew 24:42 (NIV), Matthew 24:43 (NIV), Matthew 24:44 (NIV), Matthew 24:45 (NIV), Matthew 24:46 (NIV), Matthew 24:47 (NIV), Matthew 24:48 (NIV), Matthew 24:49 (NIV), Matthew 24:50 (NIV), Matthew 24:51 (NIV)
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Blessed / Matt 5:1-12
We read the Beatitudes and go so quickly to who can be blessed and what that blessing would be like, that we can too easily miss the core of what the Beatitudes are saying with the simple word: “Blessed”.…
Created 7 months ago
Matthew 5:1 (NIV), Matthew 5:2 (NIV), Matthew 5:3 (NIV), Matthew 5:4 (NIV), Matthew 5:5 (NIV), Matthew 5:6 (NIV), Matthew 5:7 (NIV), Matthew 5:8 (NIV), Matthew 5:10 (NIV), Matthew 5:11 (NIV), Matthew 5:12 (NIV)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-01-08
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-01-08
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Colossians 1:24
Colossians 1:24 (ASV)
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:24
Colossians 1:24 (ASV)
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:25
Colossians 1:25 (ASV)
whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:25
Colossians 1:25 (ASV)
whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:26
Colossians 1:26 (ASV)
even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:26
Colossians 1:26 (ASV)
even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:27
Colossians 1:27 (ASV)
to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:27
Colossians 1:27 (ASV)
to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:28
Colossians 1:28 (ASV)
whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:28
Colossians 1:28 (ASV)
whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;Created about 3 years ago
Labels: christinyou
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Colossians 1:29
Colossians 1:29 (ASV)
whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:29
Colossians 1:29 (ASV)
whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:1
Colossians 2:1 (ASV)
For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:1
Colossians 2:1 (ASV)
For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:2
Colossians 2:2 (ASV)
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:2
Colossians 2:2 (ASV)
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:3
Colossians 2:3 (ASV)
in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:3
Colossians 2:3 (ASV)
in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:4
Colossians 2:4 (ASV)
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:4
Colossians 2:4 (ASV)
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 2:5
Colossians 2:5 (ASV)
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.Created about 3 years ago
Labels: suffering
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Colossians 2:5
Colossians 2:5 (ASV)
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.Created about 3 years ago
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Colossians 1:29
Colossians 1:29 (ASV)
whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.Created about 3 years ago
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