Bible Verses About Striving

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.”

“There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.”

“Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.”

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?”

“Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.”

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

“Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.”

“Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you. Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm. Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;”

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.[’]”

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

“Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor. Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.”

“So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

“Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.”

“It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.”

“Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.”

“Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

“If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.”

“Therefore do not be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.”

“To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.”

“Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.”