25 Bible Verses about effort

Yes, and for this very reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,

Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.

Therefore, dear friends, in expectation of these things, make every effort to be found by him spotless, blameless, and at peace.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.

So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.

"Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,

Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

And striving to maintain in the bond of peace the unity given by the Spirit.

Do your utmost to come to me soon;

Try earnestly to live at peace with every one, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord.

Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?

Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common Salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to urge you to fight in defense of the Faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ's People.

Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.

When, for instance, you are going with your opponent before a magistrate, on your way to the court do your best to be quit of him; for fear that he should drag you before the judge, when the judge will hand you over to the bailiff of the court, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.

For you know that every one will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or a freeman.

For God is not unjust; he will not forget the work that you did, and the love that you showed for his Name, in sending help to your fellow Christians--as you are still doing.

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

Therefore, my dear Brothers, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord's work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.

Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia send you their greetings, and so do all our Brothers.

Though I, if any man, have cause to rely even upon them. If any one thinks he can rely upon external privileges, far more can I!

As for ourselves, Brothers, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time--though in body only, and not in spirit--made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong upon us.

So we placed our faith in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be pronounced righteous, as the result of faith in Christ, and not of obedience to Law; for such obedience 'will not result in even one soul's being pronounced righteous.'