Key Verse Spotlight
Colossians 2:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“For though I be 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.”
Colossians 2:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. {In whom: or, Wherein}
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
For though I be 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.
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, {so} walk ye in him:
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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