What Does the Bible Say About Being Effective?

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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.

2 Peter 1:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 5:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

James 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Genesis 22:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Revelation 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

1 Peter 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Matthew 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Jeremiah 25:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

Hebrews 11:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Acts 9:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. ...

21 Bible Verses about Being Effective

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

James 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 22:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 25:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 9:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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21 Bible Verses about Being Effective

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2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

James 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 22:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 25:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 9:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote