Quotes about Effort
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
— Luke 15:8
For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
— John 4:37
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.”
— John 4:38
Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.
— John 21:3
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
— Romans 9:16
Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.
— Romans 16:6
He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
— 1 Corinthians 3:8
If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
— 1 Corinthians 3:14
Isn’t 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.
— 1 Corinthians 9:10
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.
— 1 Corinthians 9:24
Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
— 1 Corinthians 9:26
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.
— 1 Corinthians 15:10