25 Bible Verses about effort

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,

Let us use diligence, therefore to enter into that rest [the heavenly rest], that no one may fall, after the same example of disobedience.

Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.

But I will also be diligent and especially that you may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.

Strive to enter in by the narrow gate; for many, I tell you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth.

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

Make haste to come to me quickly;

Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord,

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit do you now end in the flesh?

Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which edify one another.

For when you go with your adversary to a ruler, on the way labor to be released from him, lest he take you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison;

I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.

knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.

For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.

for God works in you both to will and to work of his good pleasure.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers, salute you.

although I have ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the flesh, I [may] more;

But we, brothers, being deprived of you for a short time in presence, not in heart, used greater diligence to see your face, with much desire.

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