39 Bible Verses about striving

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

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.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;

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

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

And if also any one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to his bed,

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

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

But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;

and we shall know, we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.

Yet let no man strive, and let no man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

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

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

{A Psalm of David.} Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me:

He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me.

For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:

Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of spirit.