Colossians 1:29 To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

English Standard Version
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

New American Standard Bible
For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.

King James Bible
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.

International Standard Version
I work hard and struggle to do this, using the energy that he powerfully provides in me.

American Standard Version
whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

Young's Literal Translation
for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Ephesians 1:19
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Philippians 1:30
Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Colossians 2:1
For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Colossians 2:12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:24-29 Both the sufferings of the Head and of the members are called the sufferings of Christ, and make up, as it were, one body of sufferings. But He suffered for the redemption of the church; we suffer on other accounts; for we do but slightly taste that cup of afflictions of which Christ first drank deeply. A Christian may be said to fill up that which remains of the sufferings of Christ, when he takes up his cross, and after the pattern of Christ, bears patiently the afflictions God allots to him. Let us be thankful that God has made known to us mysteries hidden from ages and generations, and has showed the riches of his glory among us. As Christ is preached among us, let us seriously inquire, whether he dwells and reigns in us; for this alone can warrant our assured hope of his glory. We must be faithful to death, through all trials, that we may receive the crown of life, and obtain the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. Whereunto—namely, "to present every man perfect in Christ."

I also labour—rather, "I labor also." I not only "proclaim" (English Version, "preach") Christ, but I labor also.

striving—in "conflict" (Col 2:1) of spirit (compare Ro 8:26). The same Greek word is used of Epaphras (Col 4:12), "laboring fervently for you in prayers": literally, "agonizing," "striving as in the agony of a contest." So Jesus in Gethsemane when praying (Lu 22:44): so "strive" (the same Greek word, "agonize"), Lu 13:24. So Jacob "wrestled" in prayer (Ge 32:24-29). Compare "contention," Greek, "agony," or "striving earnestness," 1Th 2:2.

according to his working—Paul avows that he has power to "strive" in spirit for his converts, so far only as Christ works in him and by him (Eph 3:20; Php 4:13).

mightily—literally, "in power."