36 Bible Verses about striving

I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

And also if any man competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.

Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.

And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed,

For we both labor and are reproached for this, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the faithful.

with all humility and mildness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?

And LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me.

And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,

to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality--eternal life--

And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.

Strive thou, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many by me.

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.