Quotes about Effort
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
- Isaiah 17:11
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 12:13
It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.
- Ezekiel 24:12
Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
- Jonah 1:13
You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Micah 6:15
Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.
- Luke 12:58
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
- Luke 13:24
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