Colossians 1:23

WEB

²³if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

KJV

²³If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

BSB

²³if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature ^[+] under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

FBV

²³But your trust in him must continue rock-solid and immovable. Don't be shaken from the hope of the good news that you heard, the good news that's been shared throughout the world—that's the work that I Paul have been doing.

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Extra References

Hebrews 3:14

¹⁴For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Hebrews 3:6

⁶but Christ^[+] is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Matthew 24:13-14

¹³But he who endures to the end will be saved. ¹⁴This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Hebrews 10:38

³⁸But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Galatians 6:9

⁹Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

Acts 14:22

²²strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Colossians 1:5-6

⁵because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News ⁶which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,