24 Bible Verses about effort

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble:

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye are expecting these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, spotless and blameless.

Let us then earnestly endeavour to enter into that rest, lest any person fall after the same example of unbelief.

Well then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who sheweth mercy.

I will endeavour then that even after my decease, ye may always have wherewith to preserve the remembrance of these things.

Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

careful to preserve unity of spirit, in the bond of peace.

Hasten to come to me shortly:

Earnestly seek peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Are ye so senseless? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh?

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you concerning the common salvation, I held it necessary to write unto you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

Well then, let us earnestly pursue the things that conduce to peace, and the things which are for mutual edification.

For as thou art going with thy prosecutor to the magistrate, on the way endeavour to make up the matter with him; lest he drag thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

knowing that whatsoever good a man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a bondman, or whether he be free.

For God is not unjust, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have demonstrated in his name, having ministered assistance to the saints, and still ministering.

For it is God who worketh effectually in you both to will and to perform of his good pleasure.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Hasten to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Though I too might have confidence in the flesh; if any other man thinks that he may have confidence in the flesh, I may claim more:

But we, brethren, bereaved of you for a short moment, in person, not in heart, have more abundantly longed to see your face with great desire.

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