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100 Bible Verses about Effort

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 1,006 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 909 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 857 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 807 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

2 Peter 1:5-10 ESV / 755 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 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. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. ...

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 753 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 588 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 548 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 16:33 ESV / 488 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 14:27 ESV / 460 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 458 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

John 3:16 ESV / 440 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.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 428 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 423 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

John 15:2 ESV / 391 helpful votes

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 390 helpful votes

And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 380 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

2 Peter 1:5 ESV / 375 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 374 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 364 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 340 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 332 helpful votes

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 329 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 326 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 325 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 320 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

John 1:1 ESV / 315 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 307 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 305 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 298 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 289 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

John 14:2 ESV / 286 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 285 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 277 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 277 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 272 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 270 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 268 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 267 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 267 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 266 helpful votes

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

2 Peter 1:8 ESV / 265 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.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 265 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 264 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 264 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

John 15:13 ESV / 263 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 262 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 262 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 258 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 257 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 254 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 253 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

John 14:6 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 238 helpful votes

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.

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 237 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 237 helpful votes

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!

Acts 20:35 ESV / 235 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 4:12 ESV / 226 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

1 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 225 helpful votes

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 225 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 223 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Peter 1:6 ESV / 222 helpful votes

And knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

Romans 6:3 ESV / 217 helpful votes

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 213 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Romans 1:2 ESV / 211 helpful votes

Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Romans 9:16 ESV / 208 helpful votes

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

John 5:17 ESV / 204 helpful votes

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Acts 2:38 ESV / 202 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 4:2 ESV / 196 helpful votes

Greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 187 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 185 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 183 helpful votes

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 174 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 173 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Philippians 2:16 ESV / 171 helpful votes

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.

Romans 14:2 ESV / 170 helpful votes

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 163 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 161 helpful votes

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 154 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

Colossians 3:3 ESV / 150 helpful votes

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Titus 3:14 ESV / 147 helpful votes

And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 147 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 142 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Romans 5:3 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 131 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Romans 8:31 ESV / 131 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:2 ESV / 127 helpful votes

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 127 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

James 3:3 ESV / 126 helpful votes

If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

John 15:5 ESV / 124 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 10:10 ESV / 119 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 119 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 106 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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