Colossians 4

Treated in 17 passages across the library.

  • 4:2 Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; 11
  • 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. 2
  • 4:15 Salute the brethren that are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in their house. 2
  • 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. 1
  • 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. 1

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  1. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: Prayers in God’s Word cites Colossians 4:2

    … asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.” Colossians 4:2 — “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” Chapter 1 — Monica of Hippo…

  2. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Evelyn Christenson — What Happens When Women Pray cites Colossians 4:2

    …on to the church at Colossae: “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful” (Colossians 4:2, NIV). The “watchfulness” Paul described included watchfulness over the interior life — t…

  3. The Ministry of Intercession · Andrew Murray

    Paul a Pattern of Prayer cites Col. iv. 2

    …turn to my salvation, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” Col. iv. 2, 3, 4: “Continue in prayer; withal also praying for us, that God would open unto us a doo…

  4. Men Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: Prayers and Promises cites Colossians 4:2

    …ually.” Matthew 18:20 — “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” Colossians 4:2 — “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” Philippians 4:6–7 — “Do not…

  5. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Introduction: Women Who Held Heaven Open cites Colossians 4:2

    …ntly to us as it did to them: “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful” (Colossians 4:2, NIV). The word translated “devote” in the Greek is proskartereo — to persist, to attach …

  6. Men Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    John Wesley — The Methodical Man of Methodical Prayer cites Colossians 4:2

    …lmark of early Methodism — were not appendages to the revival; they were its engine room. Colossians 4:2 described what Wesley was after: “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankfu…

  7. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Faith, Prayer, and the Life of Dependence cites Colossians 4:2

    …ommands believers to continue “stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving” (Colossians 4:2, ASV). Nee's prayer teaching emphasized watchfulness. Prayer is attentive. The believer n…

  8. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    January cites Colossians 4:2

    … so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year! January 2 “Continue in prayer.” (Colossians 4:2) It is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subj…

  9. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    February cites Col. iv. 2

    February 1 Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2. Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy t…

  10. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    August cites Col. iv. 2

    August 1 Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2. The greatest and the best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the…

  11. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    December cites Col. iv. 2

    …table, we shall do well to keep behind.—Thomas Champness. December 24 Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2. Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of town children, who knock at their n…

  12. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Walk: Christ Lived Through Us cites Colossians 4:5

    …nter injustice, and influence communities. “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without” (Colossians 4:5, ASV). The church's public witness depends not only on what it says about Christ but how …

  13. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    September cites Col 4:6

    …peak no guile.”-- 1Pe 3:10. “Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.” -- Col 4:6. THE IDEAL of Christian speech is given in the Apostle's words to the Colossians. Our spe…

  14. The Necessity of Prayer · E. M. Bounds

    Prayer and Fervency cites Colossians 4:12

    …e word, "strive," occurring, in the request which Paul made for prayerful cooperation. In Colossians 4:12, we have the same word, but translated differently: "Epaphras always labouring fervently …

  15. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    July cites Col 4:12

    …re were many avenues of service open to him. He could pray, and he did (Col 1:3; Col 2:1; Col 4:12). He could influence others (Phi 1:11-14). He employed his leisure in writing the epistle…

  16. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Col. 4: 15

    … nursery of piety, a Bethel, of which it may be said, ‘The church which is in his house.’ Col. 4: 15. Use five. Let us pray that God would keep our English nation from the defilements of Egy…

  17. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Of the Church cites Col. 4:15

    …Such was the Church in the house of Philemon, and that in the house of Nymphas, mentioned Col. 4:15. A particular Church may, therefore, consist of any number of members, whether two or thr…