36 Bible Verses about effort
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For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
"Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."
As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.
though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!"
But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,
Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
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