17 Bible Verses about Pressing

I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one man came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to break the door.

Thou hast violently thrust at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.

And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

And it was so: for he rose early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl-full of water.

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

And he spoke to his disciples, that a small boat should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

For he had healed many; so that they pressed upon him to touch him, as many as had diseases.

And Jesus went with him; and many people followed him, and thronged him.

For he had one daughter only, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. (But as he was going, the people thronged him.

And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter, and they that were with him, said, Master, the multitude throng thee, and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And his disciples said to him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And it came to pass, that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret.

Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye give to others, it shall be measured to you again.