7 Bible Verses about Spiritual Striving
Most Relevant Verses
Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,
And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.
You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.
Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,