“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;”
King James Version (KJV)
1:11 Strengthened unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness - This is the highest point: not only to know, to do, to suffer, the whole will of God; but to suffer it to the end, not barely with patience, but with thankful joy.
Col 1:11 Strengthened with all might. Made mightily by the divine power. Unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness. Nothing requires more grace than patience and long-suffering under wrong, or even fancied wrong. It is especially hard to endure wrong "with joyfulness".
Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, vnto all patience and long suffering with ioyfulnesse:
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously
- New American Standard Version (1995)
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
- American Standard Version (1901)
Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
- Basic English Bible
strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;
- Darby Bible
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness;
- Webster's Bible
Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully enduring all things with patience and long-suffering;
- Weymouth Bible
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- World English Bible
and ben coumfortid in al vertu bi the miyt of his clerenesse, in al pacience and long abiding with ioye,
- Wycliffe Bible
in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.
- Youngs Literal Bible