25 Bible Verses about effort

And to this giving all diligence, add to your faith fortitude;

Wherefore, my brethren, be the more diligent thus to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things ye shall never fall.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye expect these things, give diligence to be found of Him in peace, spotless and blameless;

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, least any one 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 sheweth mercy.

And I will endeavour that after my departure also ye may always be able to call these things to remembrance.

But He said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate; for I tell you, many will desire to enter in, and shall not be able.

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

exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: for there is but one body and one Spirit,

Endeavour to come to me soon: for Demas hath forsaken me,

Follow peace with all men; and holiness, without which none shall see the Lord:

Are ye so void of understanding? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Beloved, having an earnest desire to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity of writing to exhort you that ye would strive earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.

Let us then pursue peace, and mutual edification.

When thou art going with thine adversary to the magistrate, endeavour while thou art in the way to be discharged, least he force thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer carry thee to prison.

so that I am afraid for you, least I have indeed bestowed upon you labour in vain.

knowing that whatever good any one doth, he shall receive the reward of it from the Lord, whether He be a slave or free.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewn to his name, by having ministred to the saints, and yet ministring.

for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Endeavour therefore to come to me before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and indeed all the brethren.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he hath whereof to trust in the flesh, I more:

But we, brethren, being separated from you for a season, in person not in heart, endeavoured the more earnestly to see you again with much desire.

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.