'Striving' in the Bible
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
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