'Attempt' in the Bible

And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.

After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous points,

For if anyone has a cause at law against you, and you are going with him before the ruler, make an attempt, on the way, to come to an agreement with him, for if you do not, he may take you before the judge and the judge will give you up to the police, and they will put you in prison.

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and [secretly] keep back for yourself some of the proceeds [from the sale] of the land?

And when he came to Jerusalem, he made an attempt to be joined to the disciples, but they were all in fear of him, not taking him for a disciple.

When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to assault and stone them,

And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;

For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.

So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one or an attempt to institute another one [the new covenant].

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; the Egyptians, {when they made the attempt}, were drowned.

My fellow believers, do not practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of partiality [toward people—show no favoritism, no prejudice, no snobbery].

And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,