36 Bible Verses about effort
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and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,
Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.
Therefore, dear friends, [because you] are waiting for these [things], make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him.
Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.
Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.
And I will also make every effort [that] you are able at any time, after my departure, {to recall these things to mind}.
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, a worker having no need to be ashamed, guiding the word of truth along a straight path.
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish for us the work of our hands, yes, the work of our hands, establish it.
Make haste to come to me quickly.
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh?
Dear friends, [although I] was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered [it] a necessity to write to you to encourage [you] to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.
Commit your work to Yahweh, and your plans will be established.
Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength?
But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."
For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.
[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
For God [is] not unjust, [so as] to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name [by] having served the saints, and continuing to serve [them].
For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.
All of a man's toil [is] for his mouth-- yet his appetite is never satisfied.
So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.
Then I saw all the work of God--man [is] not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims [that he] knows it, he cannot find it.
Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers greet you.
although I [could] have confidence even in the flesh.
May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be [given to] you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge."
But [when] we were made orphans by separation from you, brothers, for {a short time} (in face, not in heart), [we were] even more eager with great desire to see your face,
And you may think in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand {acquired this wealth for} me.'
but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law {no human being will be justified}.
