25 Bible Verses about effort

Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge:

Wherefore be the more diligent, my brethren, to secure your vocation and election by your virtuous actions, for by so doing, you will never relapse:

since then, my dear brethren, your expectations are such, take care to appear before him, without any defect or blemish, in order to be happy; and be persuaded,

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

so that this is a matter not dependent on him that wills or runs, but on God, who shews mercy.

However, I shall inculcate these things so as to make you continually remember them, even after my departure.

strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able.

endeavour to approve yourself to God, as an artist that is not afraid of reproach, by rightly explaining the word of truth.

you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain.

endeavouring to preserve the spiritual union by your affectionate attachment to one another.

Endeavour to come to me very soon:

seek peace with all men, and sanctity of life, without which no man shall see the Lord:

have you so little understanding, as having begun in the spiritual doctrine of the gospel, to turn again to the law?

My beloved, as I was strongly bent upon writing to you of our common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you at present, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.

Let us therefore pursue those things which tend to peace, and mutual edification.

When you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, pay the interest, and get your discharge, while you are on the way; for fear he should bring you before the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into jail.

you make me apprehensive, that the labour I have bestowed upon you will be all in vain.

and not to men: considering that whatever good any man doth, he shall be rewarded for it by the Lord, whether he be a slave or free.

for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give.

for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye inflexibly steady, and continually surpass others in the work of the Lord, knowing that he will not leave your christian labour unrewarded.

endeavour to come before winter. Eubulus, Prudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren salute you.

which I might do more justly than any other man can pretend to:

As for me, my brethren, having been so abruptly separated from you, in person, tho' not in affection, I have the more ardently endeavour'd to see you again.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.