4 Bible Verses about Earnestness

Strive to enter in through the narrow door; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.

to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.

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And he said to him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;

Therefore be watchful, and remember that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;