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For the wrath of God comes upon the Children of Disobedience,","proofs":["Colossians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by him all Things consist,","proofs":["Colossians 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is before all Things,","proofs":["Colossians 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead Bodily,","proofs":["Colossians 2:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell,","proofs":["Colossians 1:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Christ is All, and in all,","proofs":["Colossians 3:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He is the Head of the Body, the Church,","proofs":["Colossians 1:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge,","proofs":["Colossians 2:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly,","proofs":["Colossians 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he made Peace through the Blood of his Cross,","proofs":["Colossians 1:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He spoiled Principalities and Powers, triumphing over them in his Cross,","proofs":["Colossians 2:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Seek those Things which are above, where Christ sits on the Right Hand of God,","proofs":["Colossians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We have received Christ Jesus the Lord,","proofs":["Colossians 2:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. ’Tis Christ in you the Hope of Glory,","proofs":["Colossians 1:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is the Faith of the Operation of God,","proofs":["Colossians 2:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He is the Head of the Body, the Church,","proofs":["Colossians 1:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They are Translated into the Kingdom of his Dear Son,","proofs":["Colossians 1:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If ye be risen with Christ, seek those Things that are above,","proofs":["Colossians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Having forgiven you all Trespasses,","proofs":["Colossians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Set your Affections on Things above,","proofs":["Colossians 3:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Put on the new Man, which is renew’d after the Image of him that created him,","proofs":["Colossians 3:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let the Peace of God rule in your Hearts,","proofs":["Colossians 3:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Yes. ’Tis the Inheritance of the Saints in Light,","proofs":["Colossians 1:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Increasing in the Knowledge of God,","proofs":["Colossians 1:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"47","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/47","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Covetousness is Idolatry,","proofs":["Colossians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Not with Eye-service, as Men-pleasers, but in singleness of Heart,","proofs":["Colossians 3:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily—and with good-will doing Service,","proofs":["Colossians 3:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As to the Lord, and not to Men,","proofs":["Colossians 3:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Masters give to your Servants that which is Just and Equal,","proofs":["Colossians 4:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Wives submit your selves to your own Husbands as it is fit in the Lord,","proofs":["Colossians 3:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Husbands love your Wives, and be not bitter against them,","proofs":["Colossians 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Fathers provoke not your Children to Wrath, lest they be discouraged,","proofs":["Colossians 3:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Put on as the Elect of God Bowels of Mercies,","proofs":["Colossians 3:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let your Speech be always with Grace, season’d with Salt,","proofs":["Colossians 4:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"72","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/72","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Inordinate Affection, and evil Concupiscence, are to be mortified in us,","proofs":["Colossians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old Man,","proofs":["Colossians 3:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it is Idolatry,","proofs":["Colossians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/84","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For these Things sake cometh the Wrath of God upon the Children of Disobedience,","proofs":["Colossians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord,","proofs":["Colossians 2:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"No. As we have received him, so we must walk in him,","proofs":["Colossians 2:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"88","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/88","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms,","proofs":["Colossians 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"88","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/88","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Singing with Grace in your Heart to the Lord,","proofs":["Colossians 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Always labouring fervently in Prayer,","proofs":["Colossians 4:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"103","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/103","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any Man have a Quarrel against any,","proofs":["Colossians 3:13"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Intruding into the things they have not seen,","proofs":["Colossians 2:18"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Cause that this epistle be read also in the church of the Laodiceans,","proofs":["Colossians 4:16"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"By him were all things created, whether they be thrones, etc.,","proofs":["Colossians 1:16"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"13","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/13","segments":[{"text":"For we are renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created us,","proofs":["Colossians 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