25 Bible Verses about effort

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge,

Therefore, brethren, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall;

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 by following the same example of disobedience.

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

And I will see to it that after my departure you will be able at any time 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.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

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

Do your best to come to me soon;

Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

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

Beloved, although I was very eager to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Let us therefore pursue what makes for peace and for mutual edification.

As you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand 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 he is a slave or free.

For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

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

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

Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

though I myself have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

But since we were taken away from you, brethren, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face.

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law will no flesh be justified.