35 Bible Verses about effort

Now this same thing also, having applied all eagerness, furnish in your faith, virtue, and in virtue, knowledge,

Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.

Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that not any man may fall by the same example of disobedience.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful.

And also I will endeavor for you to always have, after my departure, the memory of these things to apply.

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

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

And let the favor of LORD our God be upon us. And establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

Hurry to come to me quickly,

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

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

Beloved, making all diligence to write to you about the common salvation, I had need to write to you exhorting you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the sanctified.

Commit thy works to LORD, and thy purposes shall be established.

Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack. For your work shall be rewarded.

So then we should pursue the things of peace, and the things of constructiveness for each other.

For when thou go with thine opponent to the magistrate on the way give effort to be delivered from him, lest he may drag thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer would cast thee into prison.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

Knowing that whatever good thing each may do, he will receive this from the Lord, whether bondman or freeman.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in Lord.

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

Hurry to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers.

Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more:

LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou have come to take refuge.

But we, brothers, who were orphaned from you for the time of an hour, in presence not in heart, hastened more earnestly to see your face, with much desire.

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

And [lest] thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no fles