15 Bible Verses about Striving With God
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and we all having fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against goads.
Since then God gave unto them the equal gift, as also unto us, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, to be able to resist God?
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Whether shall the thing formed say to him that formed it. Why did you make me thus?
but if it be of God, you will not be able to destroy them, lest perchance you may also be found fighting against God.
and falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
In this I also exercise, to always have a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin. For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate. But if I do that which I do not will, I consent to the law that it is beautiful;read more.
but now it is no more I that do it, but sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not: for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do. If I do that which I do not will, it is no longer I that do it, but sin dwelling in me. Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me: for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.
But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.
to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if perchance I may attain unto the resurrection which is out from the dead. Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.read more.
Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it; but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.
Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.
And being in agony He continued to pray the more earnestly. And His sweat was like drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
