36 Bible Verses about effort
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For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge;
Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.
Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.
Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.
"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.
by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
Make every effort to come to me soon.
Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.
Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.
Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?
But as for you, be strong and don't get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded."
As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.
for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort -- for the sake of his good pleasure -- is God.
All of man's labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach -- yet his appetite is never satisfied!
So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
then I discerned all that God has done: No one really comprehends what happens on earth. Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it. Even if a wise person claimed that he understood, he would not really comprehend it.
Make every effort to come before winter. Greetings to you from Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.
-- though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:
May the Lord reward your efforts! May your acts of kindness be repaid fully by the Lord God of Israel, from whom you have sought protection!"
But when we were separated from you, brothers and sisters, for a short time (in presence, not in affection) we became all the more fervent in our great desire to see you in person.
yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
