Giving Effort

2 Peter 1:5

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2 Peter 1:10

• Call

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

• Iron

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

2 Peter 1:5-11

• Apostles
• Assurance

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. read more But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. show less

Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Jude 1:3

• War

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Matthew 6:3

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

Philippians 2:13

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Proverbs 31:3

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.