Bible verses about "striving" | Haweis

⁴⁶ And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

⁵ Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee." ⁶ So that we may with confidence say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

¹⁵ Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.

⁷ Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

⁹ A sabbatical rest then still remaineth for the people of God. ¹⁰ For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath rested from his works, as God did from his own. ¹¹ Let us then earnestly endeavour to enter into that rest, lest any person fall after the same example of unbelief.

²⁴ Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.