Colossians 1:29
Good News Translation
To get this done I toil and struggle, using the mighty strength which Christ supplies and which is at work in me.

New Revised Standard Version
For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

Contemporary English Version
This is why I work so hard and use the mighty power he gives me.

New American Bible
For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his power working within me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

labour.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 5:9 And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

2 Corinthians 6:5 In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

2 Corinthians 11:23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.

Revelation 2:3 And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted.

striving.

Colossians 2:1 For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

Luke 13:24 Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able.

Romans 15:20,30 And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man a foundation. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:25-27 And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. . . .

Philippians 1:27,30 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel. . . .

Hebrews 12:4 For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

his.

1 Corinthians 12:6,11 And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all. . . .

Ephesians 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who believe according to the operation of the might of his power,

Ephesians 3:7,20 Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power. . . .

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

mightily.

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:3 Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you?

Context
Paul's Suffering for the Church
28Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 29Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

Ephesians 1:19
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who believe according to the operation of the might of his power,

Philippians 1:30
Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me and now have heard of me.

Colossians 2:1
For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

Colossians 2:12
Buried with him in baptism: in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him up from the dead.

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

Colossians 1:28
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