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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Colossians 1:29 - 1:29
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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 Rom 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.” So Jesus in Gethsemane when praying (Luk 22:44): so “strive” (the same Greek word, “agonize”), Luk 13:24. So Jacob “wrestled” in prayer (Gen 32:24-29). Compare “contention,” Greek, “agony,” or “striving earnestness,” 1Th 2:2.
according to his working - Paul avows that he has power to “strive” in spirit for his converts, so far only as Christ works in him and by him (Eph 3:20; Phi 4:13).
mightily - literally, “in power.”