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Colossians 1:29
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Colossians 1:29
29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
29Whereunto I also labour, striuing according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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DEFINED WORDS
Colossians 1:29
Unto what or which thing, purpose, state, result, or calling the passage names.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Making earnest effort; contending, struggling, or disputing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Works; acts, labours, produces, accomplishes, or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
With great power, strength, force, or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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Open the full verse study19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
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Open the full verse study25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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Open the full verse study7Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
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Open the full verse study13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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Open the full verse study9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
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Open the full verse study1FOR I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
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Open the full verse study21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
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Open the full verse study9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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Open the full verse study8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
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Open the full verse study12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
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Open the full verse study16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Open the full verse study20Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:
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Open the full verse study6And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
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Open the full verse study23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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Open the full verse study3Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
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Open the full verse study9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
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Open the full verse study5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
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Open the full verse study10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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Open the full verse study20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
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Open the full verse study27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
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Open the full verse study30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
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Open the full verse study3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
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Open the full verse study30Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
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Open the full verse study24¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Open the full verse study4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
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