Saturday, April 4, 2020

Colossians 1:21-23 Part 2 of 2

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation--if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. 

if you continue in your faith, established and firm 
Romans 11:22  Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 
Ephesians 3:16-19  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 

and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel 
Colossians 1:5  ... the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel ...
1 Thessalonians 5:8  But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
Titus 1:2  ... in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, ...

This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven 
Colossians 1:6  ... that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world--just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God's grace. 
Romans 10:18  But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." (Psalm 19:4)

and of which I, Paul, have become a servant 
Colossians 1:25  I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness--...
1 Corinthians 3:5  What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task.

(parentheses are mine) 

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