36 Bible Verses about effort
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Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Do your best to present yourself approved by God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
Be diligent to come to me soon,
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
But you be strong, and do not let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."
So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
and lest you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth."
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
