A name from Scripture
Colton
KOHL-tun
Meaning
Coal town; Dark settlement
English origin · Boy
What it points to
Colton transforms under pressure — coal becoming diamond, tribulation producing patience, trials yielding precious faith.
Verses · King James Version
“We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope.”
Romans 5:3-4
“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory.”
1 Peter 1:7