Colossians 1:24-29 - Paul's Suffering And Stewardship
24 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body. 25 It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message; 26 that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints. 27 To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory." 28 Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ. 29 For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.