36 Bible Verses about effort

Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

Give diligence to come shortly unto me:

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.

Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy'strength?

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.

So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Give diligence to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

Jehovah recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of Jehovah, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to take refuge.

But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

and lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.