Colossians 2:7

WEB

⁷rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

KJV

⁷Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

BSB

⁷rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

FBV

⁷grounded in him and built up by him. May your trust in him continue to grow strong, following what you were taught, full of gratitude to God.

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Extra References

Ephesians 3:17

¹⁷that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

⁸For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

Ephesians 2:20-22

²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; ²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

John 15:4-5

⁴Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. ⁵I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Colossians 1:23

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.

2 Peter 3:17-18

¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

2 Thessalonians 2:17

¹⁷comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Colossians 1:12-13

¹²giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, ¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Matthew 7:24-25

²⁴“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Ephesians 5:20

²⁰giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;