4 Bible Verses about Earnestness

Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.

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And He said to him; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

For I would pray, that I myself might be an offering from Christ; in behalf of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh:

Watch therefore, remembering, that three years night and day I ceased not admonishing you with tears.

For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: