²⁹ for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

¹ For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

¹⁰ and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;

¹² Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

⁷ of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

²⁵ and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

²⁷ but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

⁹ for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

¹⁰ because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

⁴ Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom `is' the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.

³ and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

¹⁶ the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

¹³ for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

³⁰ the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

²⁰ and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --

³⁰ And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,

⁶ and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.

¹¹ and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

⁹ Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

²³ ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

⁹ and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

¹⁰ wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

³ since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

²⁰ and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

²⁷ Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

²⁴ `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;