39 Bible Verses about striving

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 follow after, if indeed I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

For which I also labor, striving according to his working, who works in me mightily.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Only let your manner of life be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be restored, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And if a man also competes as an athlete, yet is he not crowned, unless he strives lawfully.

Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

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

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

For do I now seek the favor of men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.

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

Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Let us know, let us press on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

And in this do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

[A Psalm of David.] Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

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

For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.