Colossians 2:5
For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, reioycing and beholding your order, and your stedfast faith in Christ.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
4And this I say, lest any man shoulde beguile you with entising wordes:
6As ye haue therefore receiued Christ Iesus the Lord, so walke in him,
Cross References
Numbers 7:11And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, One prince one day, and an other prince an other day shall offer their offring, for the dedication of the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:35And also the burnt offerings were many with the fat of the peace offrings and the drinke offrings for the burnt offring. so the seruice of the house of the Lord was set in order.
Psalms 78:37For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
1 Corinthians 5:3For I verely as absent in bodie, but present in spirit, haue determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing,
1 Corinthians 14:40Let all things be done honestly, and by order.
1 Corinthians 16:13Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quite you like men, and be strong.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:5-13
The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 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. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and… Read the whole commentary →