29 To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
29 That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.
29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
29 That's why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ's mighty power that works within me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Colossians 1:29
Commentary on Colossians 1:24-29
(Read Colossians 1:24-29)
Both the sufferings of the Head and of the members are called the sufferings of Christ, and make up, as it were, one body of sufferings. But He suffered for the redemption of the church; we suffer on other accounts; for we do but slightly taste that cup of afflictions of which Christ first drank deeply. A Christian may be said to fill up that which remains of the sufferings of Christ, when he takes up his cross, and after the pattern of Christ, bears patiently the afflictions God allots to him. Let us be thankful that God has made known to us mysteries hidden from ages and generations, and has showed the riches of his glory among us. As Christ is preached among us, let us seriously inquire, whether he dwells and reigns in us; for this alone can warrant our assured hope of his glory. We must be faithful to death, through all trials, that we may receive the crown of life, and obtain the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls.