Colossians 1:29 Cross References - MLV

²⁹ for which I also labor, struggling according to his working, which works in power in me.

²⁴ Struggle to enter in through the narrow gate, because I am saying to you, Many will be seeking to enter in and will not be strong-enough.

²⁰ And so, I am making it my aim to proclaim the good-news, not where Christ was already named, in order that I might not build upon another’s foundation;

³⁰ Now brethren, I am encouraging you through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, and on my behalf in your prayers to God;

²⁵ But everyone who struggles in the race exercises self-control in all things. Therefore indeed, those men do it in order that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we receive an incorruptible crown. \ulnone\nosupersub ²⁶ Now-then, I run so, as not with uncertainty. I am combating so, as not just whipping the air; ²⁷ but I am buffeting my body and enslaving it; lest somehow after having preached to others, I myself might become unapproved.

⁶ And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same God, who is working all things in all.

¹¹ but the one and the same Spirit is working all these things, sectioning off to each one in his own way just-as he wills.

¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me.

⁹ Hence we also make it our aim to be well pleasing to him, whether at home, or away from home.

⁵ in lashes, in prisons, in unrest, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasts;

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak, as if having insanity) I am beyond them : in labors even-more, in lashes surpassingly, in prisons even-more, in deaths often.

⁹ And he has said to me, My grace is enough for you; for my power is completed in weakness. Therefore I will rather gladly be boasting in my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ might reside upon me. ¹⁰ Hence I am delighting in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, on behalf of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am mighty.

³ since you are seeking proof of the Christ speaking in me; who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.

¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength,

⁷ of which I became a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

²⁰ Now to the one who is able to do, exceptionally beyond all things, what we are asking or are perceiving, according to the power which is working in us,

²⁷ Only behave-as citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ; in order that, whether I come and see you, or am absent, I may hear about the things concerning you, that you are standing-firm in one spirit, with one soul contending together with us in the faith of the good-news.

³⁰ having the same struggle such-as you saw in me, and now are hearing to be in me.

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight.

¹⁶ Keep holding onto the word of life, for a boast to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labored in vain.

¹ For I wish you to know how-vast a struggle I have concerning you and those in Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God.

⁹ For brethren, you remember our labor and hardship. For we were working night and day, that we might not burden any of you while we preached to you the good-news of God.

⁸ nor did we eat bread freely from anyone, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, that we might not burden anyone of you;

¹⁰ Because of this, I endure all things, because of the chosen, in order that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with everlasting glory.

⁴ You have not yet stood against this, as far as blood, in your struggle against sin.

²¹ may he complete you in every good work, that you should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you, through Jesus Christ in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

³ and you have endurance and did bear because of my name and have not fatigued.