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Colossians 2:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Colossians 2:5

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3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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

6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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Colossians 2:1

"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;"

Colossians 2:2

"that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,"

Colossians 2:3

"in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden."

Colossians 2:4

"Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech."

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"As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,"

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"rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving."

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