36 Bible Verses about effort
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And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
Be diligent to come unto me quickly,
Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,
Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,
and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'
So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;
having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.
for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.
so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
though I also have cause of trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;
Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to take refuge.'
And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,
and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:
having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
