36 Bible Verses about effort
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And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
Moreover, I will endeavor that ye may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Study to show thyself approved to God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
Do thy diligence to come shortly to me:
Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with toil and vexation of spirit.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.
Commit thy works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.
When thou goest with thy adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he draw thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
Knowing that whatever good thing any man doeth, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shown towards his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man may labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes further; though a wise man thinketh to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath reason to trust in the flesh, I more:
The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to trust.
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
And thou shalt say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
