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The New Revised Standard Version Personal Greetings

who has worked very hard among you.

The New Revised Standard Version Personal Greetings

12 Greet those workers in the Lord,

The New Revised Standard Version The Ministry of the Apostles

11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, 12 and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

The New Revised Standard Version The Resurrection of Christ

I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.

The New Revised Standard Version Final Messages and Greetings

16 I urge you to put yourselves at the service of such people, and of everyone who works and toils with them.

Strengthened “

For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon Paul’s Commitment to the Gospel (1:24–29)

perfection/maturity.

The New Revised Standard Version Final Greetings and Benediction

12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon Paul’s Commitment to the Gospel (1:24–29)

the effectiveness of this divine “activity”

The New Revised Standard Version Paul Thanks God for the Colossians

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.