4 Bible Verses about Earnestness

"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

Only you must practice living lives that are worthy of the good news, so that whether I come and see you or stay away, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, and that with one purpose you are continuing to cooperate in the fight for faith in the good news.

Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.

For this I am toiling and struggling by His active energy which is mightily working in me.

Omitted Text.

And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

So ever be on your guard and always remember that for three years, night and day, I never ceased warning you one by one, and that with tears.

For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you in tears, who practice living as the enemies of the cross of Christ.