“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Colossians 1:29 - English Standard Version 2016 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Common English Bible I work hard and struggle for this goal with his energy, which works in me powerfully. Catholic Public Domain Version In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power. |
“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation,
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not 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.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.
and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.