'Attempts' in the Bible
Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.
Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.
Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.
And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.
As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,
And some men had with them, on a bed, a man who was ill, without power of moving; and they made attempts to get him in and put him before Jesus.
And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.
Then the sailors made attempts secretly to get away from the ship, letting down a boat as if they were about to put down hooks from the front of the ship;
Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.
And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.