Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.
New American Standard Bible
For this purpose also I
King James Version
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Holman Bible
I labor for this, striving
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.
Amplified
For this I labor [often to the point of exhaustion], striving with His power and energy, which so greatly works within me.
An Understandable Version
This is the reason that I work hard and struggle also, using God's mighty power which is at work in me.
Anderson New Testament
to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.
Bible in Basic English
And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.
Common New Testament
For this end I labor, striving with all his energy, which so mightily works within me.
Daniel Mace New Testament
this is what I earnestly strive to effect, by virtue of that power, which effectually operates in me.
Darby Translation
Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.
Godbey New Testament
unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.
Goodspeed New Testament
That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.
John Wesley New Testament
For which also I labour, striving according to his mighty working, who worketh in me mightily.
Julia Smith Translation
For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power.
King James 2000
For which I also labor, striving according to his working, who works in me mightily.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.
Modern King James verseion
For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.
Moffatt New Testament
I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.
Montgomery New Testament
For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.
NET Bible
Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.
New Heart English Bible
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Noyes New Testament
to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.
Sawyer New Testament
for which I also labor, striving with his power which operates in me with power.
The Emphasized Bible
Unto which I am even toiling, contending according to his energy which is energising itself in me with power.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.
Webster
For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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.
Williams New Testament
For this I am toiling and struggling by His active energy which is mightily working in me.
World English Bible
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
Themes
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
God, Trinity » Each person in, described as » Author of all spiritual operations
Topics
Interlinear
Devotionals
Devotionals about Colossians 1:29
Devotionals containing Colossians 1:29
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 1:29
Images Colossians 1:29
Prayers for Colossians 1:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Suffering And Stewardship
28 Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 29 For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
Ephesians 1:19
And what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,
Colossians 2:1
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.
Luke 13:24
Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Romans 15:20
And thus having aspired to proclaim the good-news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,
Romans 15:30
Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me.
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.
1 Corinthians 12:11
But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each man individually as it wills.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.
2 Corinthians 13:3
since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.
Ephesians 3:7
Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power.
Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do above extraordinary--above all things that we ask or think--according to the power that works in us,
Philippians 1:27
Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o
Philippians 1:30
having the same conflict such as ye saw in me, and now hear is in me.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.
Philippians 2:16
Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat bread gratis from any man, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden any of you.
2 Timothy 2:10
Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Hebrews 12:4
Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.
Hebrews 13:21
may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.
Revelation 2:3
And thou have perseverance. And thou endured because of my name, and did not become weary.