Colossians 2:3
1 For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,
2 that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5 For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
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Compare
- BSB
- in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- KJV
- In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- WEB
- in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
- ASV
- in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
- DARBY
- in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.
- BLB
- in whom are hidden away all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.
- ÅB
- i hvem alle visdommens og kunnskapens skatter er skjult til stede.
- OTB
- i hvem alle visdommens og kunnskapens skatter er skjult.
- B1930
- i hvem alle visdommens og kunnskapens skatter er skjult til stede.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:30
It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
Read in contextRomans 11:33
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
Read in context1 Corinthians 2:6–8
Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:15–17
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Read in contextColossians 1:9
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Read in contextEphesians 3:9–10
and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
Read in contextEphesians 1:8
that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
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