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1 Samuel 16:3 (NIV)

Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.”

2 Samuel 16:3 (NIV)

The king then asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will restore to me my grandfather’s kingdom.’ ”

1 Kings 16:3 (NIV)

So I am about to wipe out Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Kings 16:3 (NIV)

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

1 Chronicles 16:3 (NIV)

Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman.

“Let there be a treaty between me and you,” he said, “as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.”

Colossians 1:1 (NIV)

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:2 (NIV)

To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

Colossians 1:4 (NIV)

because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people—

Colossians 1:5 (NIV)

the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel

Colossians 1:6 (NIV)

that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.

Colossians 1:7 (NIV)

You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

Colossians 1:8 (NIV)

and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 1:9 (NIV)

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,

Colossians 1:10 (NIV)

so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 1:11 (NIV)

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,

Colossians 1:12 (NIV)

and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

Colossians 1:13 (NIV)

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,

Colossians 1:14 (NIV)

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:15 (NIV)

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Colossians 1:17 (NIV)

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Colossians 1:18 (NIV)

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

Colossians 1:19 (NIV)

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,

Colossians 1:20 (NIV)

and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Colossians 1:21 (NIV)

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.