Colossians 1:29
It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.
Ephesians 1:19
And the transcendent greatness of the power which he is able to exercise in dealing with us who believe in him.
Colossians 2:1
I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ's People at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me;
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.
Luke 13:24
"Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,
Romans 15:20
Yet always with the ambition to tell the Good News where Christ's name had not previously been heard, so as to avoid building upon another man's foundations.
Romans 15:30
I beg you, then, Brothers, by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and by the love inspired by the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf.
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.
1 Corinthians 12:6
Results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same.
1 Corinthians 12:11
All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.
2 Corinthians 6:5
In floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings;
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But his reply has been-- 'My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.' Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me.
2 Corinthians 13:3
And that will be the proof, which you are looking for, that the Christ speaks through me. There is no weakness in his dealings with you. No, he shows his power among you.
Ephesians 3:7
Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power--
Ephesians 3:20
To him who, through his power which is at work within us, is able to do far more than anything that we can ask or conceive--
Philippians 1:27
Under all circumstances let your lives be worthy of the Good News of the Christ: so that, whether I come and see you, or whether I hear of your affairs at a distance, I may know that you are standing firm, animated by one spirit, and joining with one heart in a common struggle for the Faith taught by the Good News,
Philippians 1:30
You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still.
Philippians 2:13
Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.
Philippians 2:16
Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God's Good News.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
Nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it. Night and day, laboring and toiling, we used to work at our trades, so as not to be a burden upon any of you.
2 Timothy 2:10
and that is why I submit to anything for the sake of God's People, that they also may obtain the Salvation which comes from union with Christ Jesus, and imperishable glory.
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death;
Hebrews 13:21
may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 2:3
You possess endurance, and have borne much for my Name, and have never grown weary.