4 Bible Verses about Earnestness

Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.

Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

And Philip said, If thou believest with the whole heart, it is allowable. Then he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Then Jesus 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 could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by night and by day, I have never ceased with tears to admonish every individual.

For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: