Colossians 1:6

bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you from the very day that you heard of God’s loving kindness, and understood what that loving kindness really is.

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In The King James Version

Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

In Context

5because of the hope which is kept safe for you in heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true message of the good news which reached you,

7It is just what you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who, as a minister of the Christ, faithfully represents us,

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Cross References

Psalms 98:3Mindful he was of his kindness to Jacob, faithful he was to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

Matthew 24:14This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a witness to all nations; and then will come the end.

Mark 4:8Some fell into good soil, and, shooting up and growing, yielded a return, amounting to thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold.”

Mark 16:15Then he said to them, “Go into all the world, and proclaim the good news to all creation.

John 15:16It wasn’t you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my name.

Acts 12:24Meanwhile the Lord’s message kept extending, and spreading far and wide.

Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:4-9

Paul's Thanksgiving for the Colossians. ( a. d. 62.) 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in… Read the whole commentary →

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