39 Bible Verses about striving
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I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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.
For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
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.
Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
But the servant of the Lord must not strive, but to be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient,
Better is a hand filled with rest than two fists with travail and vexation of spirit.
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves; mind the same thing; be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
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?
Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?
Be still, and know that I am God! I will be praised among the nations, I will be praised in the earth.
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;
For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
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.
For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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.
And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.
Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;
But I exhort you, brothers, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
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.
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another. For your people are as those who strive with the priest.
indeed to those who with patience in good work are seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.
A Psalm of David. Strive, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me.
He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for there were many with me.
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.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
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Spiritual » Sowing » Striving
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
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.
For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.
Striving » What to strive for
Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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
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.
Topics on Striving
Spiritual Striving
Philippians 1:27Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
Striving With God
Acts 26:14And all of us falling to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.