24 Bible Verses about effort

For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on the mercy of God.

I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.

"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,

Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.

offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.

Make every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.

Do your best to come to me soon,

Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

Are you so senseless? Did you begin with the Spirit only to end now with the flesh?

Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.

Let us, therefore, keep before us whatever will contribute to peace and the development of one another.

For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.

I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do.

For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

though I at least am entitled to rely on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on his physical advantages, still more can I!

For our part, brothers, when we were separated from you for a little while??n person, though not in spirit??e were extremely eager and longed intensely to see you.

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.