'Pressure' in the Bible

But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.

And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance;

Besides those external things, there is the daily [inescapable] pressure of my concern for all the churches.

but I did not want to do anything without first getting your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.