The writing is thought to cite or allude to the New Testament Gospels of Matthew and John, as well as 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Hebrews, 1 John and the Book of Revelation -- John's Gospel the most often.

Laodicea receives passing mention in the epistle to the Colossians and is one of the Seven churches of Asia mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

The New Testament verses typically referenced are Matthew 26: 30 ; Acts 16: 25 ; Romans 15: 9 ; 1 Corinthians 14: 15 ; Ephesians 5: 19 ; Colossians 3: 16 ; Hebrews 2: 12, 13: 15 ; James 5: 13, which reveal a command for all Christians to sing.

It does not appear that St. Paul had visited this city when he wrote his Epistle to the Colossians (, ), since he tells Philemon of his hope to visit it upon being freed from prison ( see Philemon 1: 22 ).

Interestingly, it is the Father in Colossians who is said to have delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son ( Col 1: 12, 13 ), not the typical way of articulating salvation today.

As does 1 Corinthians 13, Colossians 1, in early verses, deals with faith, hope and love.

While in the case of 1 Corinthians, the love ' does not ' statements like boasting remind one of the criticisms of the Corinthians earlier in the book, Colossians is different.

Many scholars also doubt Petrine authorship because they are convinced that 1 Peter is dependent on the Pauline epistles and that is was written after Paul ’ s ministry because it shares many of the same motifs espoused in Ephesians, Colossians, and the Pastoral Epistles.

Further, Jesus Christ himself is called the " image of the invisible God " in Colossians 1: 15, and is therefore in one sense an icon.

In the New Testament the term is used for everything from Jesus as the image of the invisible God ( Colossians 1: 15 ) to the image of Caesar on a Roman coin () to the image of the Beast in the Apocalypse ( Revelation 14: 19 ).

# Colossians 1: 15 ;

In Justin's works, distinct references are found to Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians, and possible ones to Philippians, Titus, and 1 Timothy.

: Acts 20: 28 ; 1 Corinthians 12: 13, 14, 27 ; Romans 12: 4-5 ; Colossians 1: 18 ; Acts 2: 42 ; Ephesians 2: 19-22 ; Romans 15: 5-7 ; Ephesians 4: 11-16 ; 2 Peter 3: 18 ; 1 Peter 2: 4-10 ; Matthew 18: 20 ; Hebrews 10: 24-25.

* 1904-Premillennialist theologian William Eugene Blackstone begins teaching that the world has already been evangelized, citing Acts 2: 5, 8: 4, Mark 16: 20 and Colossians 1: 23

Instead Paul focuses on contrasting the birth of Jesus with the fall of Adam, and presents Jesus as the " firstborn of all creation ", and a second Adam, in Colossians 1: 15-16.

* God is bodily present in the incarnation of his Son, Jesus Christ ( Gospel of John 1: 14, Colossians 2: 9 )

" For the invincibly ignorant, he saw their path to salvation as being through the mediation of the Church's missionary activity: " the sons of the Catholic Church … should always be zealous to seek them out and aid them, whether poor, or sick, or afflicted with any other burdens, with all the offices of Christian charity ; and they should especially endeavor to snatch them from the darkness of error in which they unhappily lie, and lead them back to Catholic truth and to the most loving Mother the Church, who never ceases to stretch out her maternal hands lovingly to them, and to call them back to her bosom so that, established and firm in faith, hope, and charity, and ' being fruitful in every good work ' ( Colossians 1: 10 ), they may attain eternal salvation.

In Jesus, God took on human flesh at a precise moment in time, while remaining fully and eternally God: " for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily " ( John 1: 1 – 14 ; 1 Timothy 3: 16 ; Colossians 2: 9 ).

They reason that the Bible generally refers to nations and tribes as female characters, as in Matthew 2: 18 and Revelation 17 and that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega ( Revelation 22: 13 ), through Him all things were created ( Colossians 1: 15-17 ).

Leaders and scriptural texts of the LDS Church actually affirm a belief in the Holy Trinity but use the word " Godhead " ( a term used by the Apostle Paul in Acts 17: 29 ; Romans 1: 20, and Colossians 2: 9 ) as a means to set apart their belief that the unity of the three persons of the Trinity includes unity in all things, except a physical unity of beings.

" Then in Col 3: 16, Paul's goal is that the Colossians themselves to in some manner continue in this ministry and admonish and test each other, ' one another ' as Paul did for them.

# Colossians 3: 10 ;

: Romans 6: 3 – 4 ; Matthew 28: 19 – 20 ; Acts 2: 41 ; Colossians 2: 12 ; Romans 6: 11 ; Galatians 3: 26 – 27

" They were not a specific people ", but rather variety of peoples " referred to at variety of times in history, and in several places, none of which was their original homeland " The Bible includes a single reference to Scythians in Colossians 3: 11, immediately after mentioning barbarian, possibly as an extreme example of a barbarian.

The New Testament urges believers to speak the gospel clearly, fearlessly, graciously, and respectfully whenever an opportunity presents itself ( see Colossians 4: 2 – 6, Ephesians 6: 19 – 20, and I Peter 3: 15 ).

** Colossians 3: 16 Review

14: 26 ; see also Colossians 3: 16, Hebrews 10: 24 – 25 )

Paul might also reference it as well in Colossians 3: 1 and Romans

( Colossians 3: 17 NIV )

Circumcision was so closely associated with Jewish men that Jewish Christians were referred to as " those of the circumcision " ( e. g. Colossians 3: 20 ) or conversely Christians who were circumcised were referred to as Jewish Christians or Judaizers.

Parallels to Thomas 53 are found in Paul's Romans 2: 29, Philippians 3: 3, 1 Corinthians 7: 19, Galatians 6: 15, Colossians 2: 11 – 12.

Volume 3, Colossians – Revelation, 1972.

Many of the interpretations that would later become orthodox Christian beliefs concerning baptism can be traced to apostles such as Paul, who described baptism as a burial ( Romans 6: 3, 4 ; Colossians 2: 12 ).

" — Colossians 3: 25, KJV

Reference to in Acts 20: 4 ; Ephesians 6: 21 ; Colossians 4: 7 ; 2 Timothy 4: 12 ; Titus 3: 12

St. Paul wrote ( Epistle to the Colossians, 3: 14 ): " And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

( Colossians 3: 17 )

In the New Testament the word mystery is applied ordinarily to the sublime revelation of the Gospel ( Matthew 13: 11 ; Colossians 2: 2 ; 1 Timothy 3: 9 ; 1 Corinthians 15: 51 ), and to the Incarnation and life of the Saviour and his manifestation by the preaching of the Apostles ( Romans 16: 25 ; Ephesians 3: 4 ; 6: 19 ; Colossians 1: 26 ; 4: 3 ).

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

* Livy, Book 1

His extant commentaries are on Prior Analytics ( Book 1 ), Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics ( Books 1-5 ).

The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.

The ideas of discipline and justice, although not enacted here, correspond to the central message in what some refer to as the Book of Woes ( 5: 1 to 6: 14 ).

But the Greek 3rd Book of Ezra ( 1 Esdras ) suggests that Babylonians:

* Folio 7 recto: Lion ( Leo ) ( Physiologus, Chapter 1 ; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, ii, 3-6 )

* Folio 23 verso: Mouse ( Mus ) ( Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, iii, 1 )

* Capp, Al, Li ' l Abner: Reuben Award Winner Series Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne

In novels and sometimes other types of books ( for example, biographies ), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books ( Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on ).

The Book of Chronicles is alluded to, though not directly quoted, in the New Testament ( Hebrews 5: 4 ; Matthew 12: 42 ; 23: 35 ; Luke 1: 5 ; 11: 31, 51 ).

A total of eight copies of the Book of Daniel have been found at Qumran: two in Cave 1, five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6.

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In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.

( Haggai 1: 14-15 ) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BCE " The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

The superscription of the Book of Zephaniah attributes its authorship to “ Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah ” ( 1: 1, NRSV ).

Instead a different process, that of producing an alternative book, led to the publication of Series 1, 2 and 3 in the 1960s, the 1980 Alternative Service Book and subsequently to the 2000 Common Worship series of books.

The ECP has since published its own Book of Common Prayer upon gaining full autonomy on 1 May 1990.

In September 1918, according to The Black Book of Communism, in only twelve provinces of Russia, 48, 735 deserters and 7, 325 " bandits " were arrested, 1, 826 were killed and 2, 230 were executed.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.