36 Bible Verses about effort

But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,

Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;

Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should have also, at any time, in your power to call to mind these things.

Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

And let the beauty of Jehovah 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 through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

Use diligence to come to me quickly;

Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with labour and pursuit of the wind.

Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh?

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!

But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.

So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

For as thou goest with thine adverse party before a magistrate, strive in the way to be reconciled with him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

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

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.

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

Though I have my trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:

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

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow to it.

And thou say in thy heart, my power And the might of my hand has procured me This wealth.

but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law nor but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of the faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.