always labouring fervently
Colossians 4:12
4:12 always labouring fervently. Ephaphras was a true “prayer warrior,” always interceding for the Christians at Colosse. The word translated “labouring fervently” is agonizomai. The same word is translated “strive” in Luke 13:24 and “fight” in I Timothy 6:12. In English it is transliterated as “agonize.”