36 Bible Verses about effort
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But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;
Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.
Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.
Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.
So then it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God, the One showing mercy.
And I will also be diligent to cause you to always have memory of these things after my departure.
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.
And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be on us; and establish the work of our hands on us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it.
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice by the multitude of words.
Make haste to come to me quickly.
Better is a hand filled with rest than two fists with travail and vexation of spirit.
Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now perfect yourself in the flesh?
Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Roll your works upon Jehovah, and your thoughts shall be established.
If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength.
But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.
For as you go with your adversary to the judge, give pains in the way to be set free from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into the prison.
(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.
Then I looked at all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea, further, though a wise one speaks of knowing, yet he shall not be able to find it.
Try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers.
though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.
May Jehovah repay your work, and may a full reward be given you from Jehovah, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust.
But, my brothers, when we were taken away from you for an hour's time (in presence, not in heart), more abundantly we were eager with much desire to see your face.
and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.
