Colossians 1:29

Weymouth NT

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.

Cross References

Luke 13:24

»Strain every nerve to force your way in through the narrow gate,« He answered; »for multitudes, I tell you, will endeavour to find a way in and will not succeed.

Romans 15:20

making it my ambition, however, not to tell the Good News where Christ's name was already known, for fear I should be building on another man's foundation.

Romans 15:30

But I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love which His Spirit inspires, to help me by wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf,

1 Corinthians 12:11

But these results are all brought about by one and the same Spirit, who bestows His gifts upon each of us in accordance with His own will.

1 Corinthians 12:6

diversities in work, and yet one and the same God–He who in each person brings about the whole result.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest–yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.) Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments, by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life many a time.

2 Corinthians 13:3

since you want a practical proof of the fact that Christ speaks by my lips–He who is not feeble towards you, but powerful among you.

2 Corinthians 5:9

And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.

2 Corinthians 6:5

by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;

Ephesians 1:19

and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers as seen in the working of His infinite might

Ephesians 3:20

Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest prayers or thoughts–

Ephesians 3:7

in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, has graciously entrusted to me.

Philippians 1:27

Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.

Philippians 1:30

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

Philippians 2:16

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

Colossians 2:1

For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,

Colossians 2:12

having been buried with Him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith produced within you by God who raised Him from among the dead.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm–Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it, but we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

2 Timothy 2:10

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation –even the salvation which is in Christ Jesus– and with it eternal glory.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;

Hebrews 13:21

fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

Revelation 2:3

And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary.