Colossians 2:7
Good News Translation
Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with thanksgiving.

New Revised Standard Version
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Contemporary English Version
Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life. Be strong in your faith, just as you were taught. And be grateful.

New American Bible
rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

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Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

Rooted.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Psalm 92:13 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Jeremiah 17:8 And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.

Ezekiel 17:23,24 On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof. . . .

Romans 11:17,18 And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree: . . .

Ephesians 2:21,22 In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. . . .

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

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

built.

Matthew 7:24,25 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Luke 6:48 He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep and laid the foundation upon a rock. And when a flood came, the stream beat vehemently upon that house: and it could not shake it: for it was founded on a rock.

John 15:4,5 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:9-15 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building. . . .

Ephesians 2:20-22 Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: . . .

1 Peter 2:4-6 Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God: . . .

Jude 1:20 But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

stablished.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity;

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

2 Thessalonians 2:17 Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

2 Peter 3:17,18 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. . . .

Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

with.

Colossians 1:12,13 Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light: . . .

Colossians 3:17 All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father:

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

Context
Alive in Christ
6As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in him: 7Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving. 8Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:8
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

Ephesians 2:20
Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

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

Ephesians 4:21
If so be that you have heard him and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Colossians 1:23
If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Hebrews 13:9
Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

Jude 1:20
But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Colossians 2:6
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