Quotes About Effort

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

The other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

So then, it does not depend on manís desire or effort, but on Godís mercy.

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

Isnít He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.

nor did we eat anyoneís food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

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

The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

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

Make every effort to come to me quickly,

Make every effort to come to me before winter. Eubulus sends you greetings, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.