Colossians 1:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ For this I toil and strive with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ For this I labor [unto weariness], striving with all the superhuman energy which He so mightily enkindles and works within me.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Common English Bible

²⁹ I work hard and struggle for this goal with his energy, which works in me powerfully.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue.

Colossians 1:29 Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.

Ephesians 1:19

and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power.

Ephesians 3:7

Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, as he works among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Colossians 2:1

For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you and for those in Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you. He is always striving in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life so that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

1 Corinthians 12:11

All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

Romans 15:20

Thus I make it my ambition to proclaim the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on someone else’s foundation,

Revelation 2:3

I also know that you are enduring and bearing up for the sake of my name and that you have not grown weary.

2 Timothy 2:10

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Philippians 1:30

since you are having the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

Philippians 1:27

Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel

Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine,

2 Corinthians 13:3

since you desire proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you but is powerful in you.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.

2 Corinthians 6:5

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

2 Corinthians 5:9

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him.

1 Corinthians 12:6

and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.

Romans 15:30

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf,

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Colossians 2:12

when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.