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

New Living Translation
That’s why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.

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

Berean Study Bible
To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

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

NASB 1995
For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.

NASB 1977
And for this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.

Amplified Bible
For this I labor [often to the point of exhaustion], striving with His power and energy, which so greatly works within me.

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

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

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

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I work hard and struggle to do this while his mighty power works in me.

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

NET Bible
Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

New King James Version
To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

King James 2000 Bible
For which I also labor, striving according to his working, who works in me mightily.

New Heart English Bible
for which I also labor, struggling according to his power, which works in me mightily.

World English Bible
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

American King James Version
Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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

A Faithful Version
For this cause I also labor, striving according to His inner working, which works in me with power.

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

English Revised Version
whereunto I labour also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Webster's Bible Translation
For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wherunto I also labour striuyng, according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Wherin I also laboure, and stryue acordinge to the workynge of him which worketh mightely in me.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Wherin I also laboure and stryve even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for which I also labor, striving according to His working that is working in me in power.

Berean Literal Bible
Unto this also I toil, striving according to His energy, working 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Unto this also I labor exhaustively, struggling according to His working working in me in power.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For in this I also labor and fight with the help of the power that is given to me.

Lamsa Bible
And to this end, I labour and strive through the help of the power which is given to me.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.

Godbey New Testament
unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.

Haweis New Testament
for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

Mace New Testament
this is what I earnestly strive to effect, by virtue of that power, which effectually operates in me.

Weymouth New Testament
To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me.

Worrell New Testament
to which end I am toiling also, striving according to His working, which is working in me with power.

Worsley New Testament
in order to which I also labour, striving earnestly according to his energy which operates in me with power.
















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