36 Bible Verses about effort

Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you will be able to call these things to mind.

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

Make every effort to come to me soon;

One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

Commit your works to the Lord
And your plans will be established.

“Will your riches keep you from distress,
Or all the forces of your strength?

But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.”

So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

All a man’s labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot discover.

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:

May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”

But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,
And He adds no sorrow to it.

Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’

nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.