25 Bible Verses about effort

Now for this very reason you must do your level best to supplement your faith with moral character, moral character with knowledge,

Therefore, brothers, be all the more in earnest to make certain to yourselves God's call and choice of you. For if you cultivate these qualities, you will never slip,

Therefore, dearly beloved, since you are expecting this, be in earnest to be found by Him without a blot, without reproach, and at peace.

So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.

So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.

Yes, I will be in earnest, so that every time you have occasion, after I have gone away, you may call these things to mind.

"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,

Do your best to present yourself to God an approved workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, who properly presents the message of truth.

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

continuing with eager earnestness to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.

Do your best to come to me soon,

Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

Are you so senseless? Did you begin by the Spirit, but are now approaching perfection by fleshly means?

Dearly beloved, while I was doing my best to begin writing you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write and urge you to carry on a vigorous defense of the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's people.

So let us keep on pursuing the things that make for peace and our mutual upbuilding.

For instance, when you are on the way to court with your opponent, take the utmost pains on the way to get entirely rid of him, so that he may not rush you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the sheriff, and the sheriff put you in prison.

I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have shown His name in the service you have rendered for your fellow-Christians, and still are doing.

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Prudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

though I too might rely on these. If anyone thinks that he can rely on outward privileges, far more might I do so:

Now we, brothers, on our part, when we were separated from you for a little while -- in person but not in heart -- were extremely eager and intensely longing to see you.

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.