34 Bible Verses about Doing Your Best

Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.

With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.

so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.

Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.

But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;

and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:

For it is God's will that by doing what is right you should thus silence the ignorant talk of foolish persons.

If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world.

If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

Help Zenas the lawyer forward on his journey with special care, and Apollos, so that they may have all they require.

Therefore, dear friends, since you have these expectations, earnestly seek to be found in His presence, free from blemish or reproach, in peace.

You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man.

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

"But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.

For it is better that you should suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing evil;

Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes shall find so doing!

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.

Make an effort to come to me speedily.

"I do not accept glory from man,

If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

The doctrines and the line of conduct which I taught you--both what you heard and what you saw in me-- hold fast to them; and God who gives peace will be with you.

that your charities may be in secret; and then your Father--He who sees in secret--will recompense you.

eagerly looking forward to the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, all ablaze, will be destroyed, and the elements will melt in the fierce heat?

fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

"Strain every nerve to force your way in through the narrow gate," He answered; "for multitudes, I tell you, will endeavour to find a way in and will not succeed.