Answer: Paul labored to teach people about Jesus,
struggling with all Christ's energy, which so powerfully
worked in him, (verse 29).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
John 14:10: [Jesus said,] "Don't
you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me?
The Words I say to you are not just My Own. Rather, it is the
Father, living in Me, Who is doing His work."
1 Corinthians 15:10: "But by the
grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without
effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but
the grace of God that was with Me."
Ephesians 1:18-19: "I pray also
that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you
may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His
glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great
power for us who believe. That power is like the working of His
mighty strength..."
Ephesians 3:7: "I [Paul] became a
servant of this Gospel by the gift of God's grace given me through
the working of His power."
Philippians 2:12-13: "Therefore, my
dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my
presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work
out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God Who works
in you to will and to act according to His good
purpose."
Colossians 2:1: "I want you to know
how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for
all who have not met me personally."
