Colossians 2:5 · KJV
“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
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, {so} walk ye in him:
Colossians 2 — Context
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. {In whom: or, Wherein}
4And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5For 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.
6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, {so} walk ye in him:
7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:3-4
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, {concerning} him that hath so done this deed, {judged: or, determined}
1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
2 Peter 3:17-18
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know {these things} before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Hebrews 3:14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
1 Corinthians 14:40
Let all things be done decently and in order.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.