25 Bible Verses about effort

so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you expect such things, earnestly strive, by being spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace:

Let us earnestly strive, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the same example of unbelief.

Therefore, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.

But I will earnestly endeavor that you may be able, even after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

Strive to enter in through the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Strive to present yourself to God as approved, a workman that has no cause to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth.

holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

earnestly endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Endeavor to come to me shortly;

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord;

Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

Therefore, let us seek those things which belong to peace, and those which tend to mutual edification.

For when you are going with your opponent at law to the ruler, while you are on the way, endeavor to be delivered from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the collector, and the collector throw you into prison.

fear for you, lest I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Endeavor to come to me before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren salute you.

though, indeed, I have a ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he has a ground of confidence in the flesh, I more;

But we, brethren, having been taken from you for a short time, in person, not in heart, did, with great desire, endeavor the more earnestly to see your face.

knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed on Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law: because, by works of law no flesh shall be justified.