Font Size
Colossians 4:12
New Living Translation
Colossians 4:12
New Living Translation
12 Epaphras, a member of your own fellowship and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident that you are following the whole will of God.
Read full chapter
Colossians 4:12
New International Version
Colossians 4:12
New International Version
12 Epaphras,(A) who is one of you(B) and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you,(C) that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature(D) and fully assured.
Romans 15:30
New Living Translation
Romans 15:30
New Living Translation
30 Dear brothers and sisters, I urge you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to join in my struggle by praying to God for me. Do this because of your love for me, given to you by the Holy Spirit.
Read full chapter
Romans 15:30
New International Version
Romans 15:30
New International Version
30 I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit,(A) to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.(B)
Colossians 1:9
New Living Translation
Colossians 1:9
New Living Translation
9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Read full chapter
Colossians 1:9
New International Version
Colossians 1:9
New International Version
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you,(A) we have not stopped praying for you.(B) We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will(C) through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a](D)
Footnotes
- Colossians 1:9 Or all spiritual wisdom and understanding
Philemon 23
New Living Translation
Philemon 23
New Living Translation
Paul’s Final Greetings
23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings.
Read full chapter
Philemon 23
New International Version
Philemon 23
New International Version
Colossians 1:28
New Living Translation
Colossians 1:28
New Living Translation
28 So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfect[a] in their relationship to Christ.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1:28 Or mature.
Colossians 1:28
New International Version
Colossians 1:28
New International Version
28 He is the one we proclaim, admonishing(A) and teaching everyone with all wisdom,(B) so that we may present everyone fully mature(C) in Christ.
Colossians 1:7
New Living Translation
Colossians 1:7
New Living Translation
7 You learned about the Good News from Epaphras, our beloved co-worker. He is Christ’s faithful servant, and he is helping us on your behalf.[a]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1:7 Or he is ministering on your behalf; some manuscripts read he is ministering on our behalf.
Colossians 1:7
New International Version
Colossians 1:7
New International Version
7 You learned it from Epaphras,(A) our dear fellow servant,[a] who is a faithful minister(B) of Christ on our[b] behalf,
Footnotes
- Colossians 1:7 Or slave
- Colossians 1:7 Some manuscripts your
2 Peter 1:1
New Living Translation
2 Peter 1:1
New Living Translation
Greetings from Peter
1 This letter is from Simon[a] Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ.
I am writing to you who share the same precious faith we have. This faith was given to you because of the justice and fairness[b] of Jesus Christ, our God and Savior.
Read full chapter
2 Peter 1:1
New International Version
2 Peter 1:1
New International Version
1 Simon Peter, a servant(A) and apostle of Jesus Christ,(B)
To those who through the righteousness(C) of our God and Savior Jesus Christ(D) have received a faith as precious as ours:
Galatians 4:19
New Living Translation
Galatians 4:19
New Living Translation
19 Oh, my dear children! I feel as if I’m going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.
Read full chapter
Galatians 4:19
New International Version
Galatians 4:19
New International Version
19 My dear children,(A) for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,(B)
Romans 15:14
New Living Translation
Romans 15:14
New Living Translation
Paul’s Reason for Writing
14 I am fully convinced, my dear brothers and sisters,[a] that you are full of goodness. You know these things so well you can teach each other all about them.
Read full chapter
Romans 15:14
New International Version
Romans 15:14
New International Version
Paul the Minister to the Gentiles
14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness,(A) filled with knowledge(B) and competent to instruct one another.
Jude 24
New Living Translation
Jude 24
New Living Translation
A Prayer of Praise
24 Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.
Read full chapter
Jude 24
New International Version
Jude 24
New International Version
Doxology
24 To him who is able(A) to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence(B) without fault(C) and with great joy—
Hebrews 5:14-6:1
New Living Translation
Hebrews 5:14-6:1
New Living Translation
14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
6 So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds[a] and placing our faith in God.
Footnotes
- 6:1 Greek from dead works.
Hebrews 5:14-6:1
New International Version
Hebrews 5:14-6:1
New International Version
14 But solid food is for the mature,(A) who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.(B)
6 Therefore let us move beyond(C) the elementary teachings(D) about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death,[a](E) and of faith in God,
Footnotes
- Hebrews 6:1 Or from useless rituals
Hebrews 5:7
New Living Translation
Hebrews 5:7
New Living Translation
7 While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God.
Read full chapter
Hebrews 5:7
New International Version
Hebrews 5:7
New International Version
7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions(A) with fervent cries and tears(B) to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard(C) because of his reverent submission.(D)
Colossians 1:22
New Living Translation
Colossians 1:22
New Living Translation
22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Read full chapter
Colossians 1:22
New International Version
Colossians 1:22
New International Version
22 But now he has reconciled(A) you by Christ’s physical body(B) through death to present you(C) holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation(D)—
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.