Colossians 1:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

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1 Corinthians 15:10
But 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.
Ephesians 1:19
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
And 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. …
Ephesians 3:7
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-29)

Here is a summary of the doctrine of the gospel concerning the great work of our redemption by Christ. It comes in here not as the matter of a sermon, but as the matter of a thanksgiving; for our salvation by Christ furnishes us with abundant matter of thanksgiving in every view of it: Giving thanks unto the Father, Col. 1:12. He does not discourse of the work of redemption in the natural order of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. Whereunto--namely, “to present every man perfect in Christ.” I also labour--rather, “I labor also.” I not only “proclaim” (English Version, “preach”) Christ, but I labor also. striving--in “conflict” (Col 2:1) of spirit (compare Ro 8:26). The same Greek word is used of Epaphras (Col 4:12), “laboring fervently for you in prayers”: literally, “agonizing,” “striving as in the agony of a contest.”…