4 Bible Verses about Earnestness

"Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

For this end I labor, striving with all his energy, which so mightily works within me.

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Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night and day to admonish each one with tears.

For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.