35 Bible Verses about effort

So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

Do your best to come to me before long:

One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

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But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

For if anyone has a cause at law against you, and you are going with him before the ruler, make an attempt, on the way, to come to an agreement with him, for if you do not, he may take you before the judge and the judge will give you up to the police, and they will put you in prison.

I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

Do your best to come before the winter. Eubulus sends you his love, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers.

Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.

Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.