Colossians 1:27
Good News Translation
God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.

New Revised Standard Version
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Contemporary English Version
God did this because he wanted you Gentiles to understand his wonderful and glorious mystery. And the mystery is that Christ lives in you, and he is your hope of sharing in God's glory.

New American Bible
to whom God chose to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; it is Christ in you, the hope for glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

whom.

1 Corinthians 2:12-14 Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 1:15,16 But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, . . .

the riches.

Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Romans 9:23 That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

Ephesians 1:7,17,18 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace, . . .

Ephesians 3:8-10,16 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: . . .

Philippians 4:19 And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Christ.

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

John 14:17,20,23 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you. . . .

John 15:2-5 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. . . .

John 17:22,23,26 And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that, they may be one, as we also are one. . . .

Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

Ephesians 2:22 In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.

in you.

Colossians 1:5 For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

Psalm 16:9-11 Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope. . . .

Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Romans 8:18,19 For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:17 For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:

1 Peter 1:3,4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

Context
Paul's Suffering for the Church
26The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints, 27To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory. 28Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:11
Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

Romans 2:4
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Romans 8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace,

Ephesians 1:18
The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Ephesians 3:16
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:

1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:

Hebrews 6:19
Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil:

Colossians 1:26
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