24 Bible Verses about effort

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy.

Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves.

Do your best to come soon to me,

Aim at peace with all ??and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

Are you such fools? Did you begin with the spirit only to end now with the flesh?

Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;

Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

Thus, when you go before the magistrate with your opponent, do your utmost to get quit of him on the way there, in case he hales you before the judge; then the judge will hand you over to the jailer and the jailer will throw you in prison.

Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you; so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brotherhood.

Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.

Brothers, when we were bereft of you for a little while (out of sight, not out of mind), we were the more eager to see you. We had a keen longing for you.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.