36 Bible Verses about effort

And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.

Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my departure to have these things always in remembrance.

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

Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

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

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish it.

For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

Do your diligence to come shortly unto me:

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

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

Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Commit your works unto the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.

Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Be you strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.

When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may settle with him; lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man does, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Do your diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reasons he might trust in the flesh, I more:

The LORD recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.