39 Bible Verses about striving

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Philippians 3:12

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands?

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

Exodus 21:18

And if men strive together, and one strikes another with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed;

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Proverbs 25:8

Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

Hosea 6:3

Then we shall know, if we follow on to know Jehovah. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

Hosea 4:4

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another. For your people are as those who strive with the priest.

Psalm 35:1

A Psalm of David. Strive, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me.

Psalm 55:18

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for there were many with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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Striving » What to strive for

Luke 13:23-24

And one said to Him, Lord, are the ones being saved few? And He said to them, Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Striving » Those that strive for the mastery

1 Corinthians 9:24-25

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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