39 Bible Verses about striving

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

'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;

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

Woe to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work, 'He hath no hands?'

Salute you doth Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

'And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,

And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'

Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people are as those striving with a priest.

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

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

By David. Strive, Jehovah, with my strivers, fight with my fighters,

He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;