4 Bible Verses about Earnestness

strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able.

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

only conduct yourselves in a manner becoming the gospel of Christ, that whether I come to see you, or else am absent, I may have this account of you, that you are stedfastly of the same resolution, and unanimously contend for the faith of the gospel,

every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

this is what I earnestly strive to effect, by virtue of that power, which effectually operates in me.

[and Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may. and he answered, I do believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.]

Jesus said to him, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,

be then upon the watch, and remember, that for three years I have not ceased by night, or by day to warn every soul of you, even with tears.

for there are many that wander about, of whom I have frequently told you, and now repeat it with tears, that they are enemies to the cross of Christ: