25 Bible Verses about effort

For this very reason giving all diligence, add to your faith courage,

Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election firm; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye look for these things, labour to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Let us labour, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one should fall, after the same example of unbelief.

It is not therefore of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

But I will endeavour, that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

And he said to him, Strive to enter in thro' the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Be diligent to present thyself unto God approved a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

forbearing one another in love, Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit, by the bond of peace.

Do thy diligence to come to me shortly.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Are ye so thoughtless? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you and exhort you, to contend earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.

Let us therefore pursue the things that tend to peace, and to mutual edification.

When thou art going with thine adversary to the magistrate, give diligence in the way to be delivered from him: lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.

Knowing that whatsoever good each man doth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a servant or free.

For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day,

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, laboured with great desire the more abundantly to see your face.

and not sinners of the Gentiles, Even we (knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ) have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.