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20 Bible Verses About Doing Your Best

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Summary

  • The NIV’s “Do your best” in 2 Timothy 2:15 translates spoudazo, the verb the same letter uses when Paul asks Timothy to get to him before winter (2 Timothy 4:21).
  • Colossians 3:23-24 was first addressed to slaves, telling them to work with all their heart whether or not a master was watching.
  • In the parable of the bags of gold, the servant who gained two bags hears the same “Well done” as the servant who gained five (Matthew 25:21, 23).
  • Ecclesiastes 9:10 gives death as the reason to work with all your might now.
  • Philippians 2:12-13 sets working out salvation and “it is God who works in you” in a single sentence.

The Bible asks for wholehearted work done for God, and it pairs that effort with strength God supplies. Colossians 3:23 says to work “with all your heart, as working for the Lord,” and 1 Peter 4:11 says to serve “with the strength God provides.” Proverbs praises the diligent (Proverbs 13:4), Paul compares faithful effort to a race (1 Corinthians 9:24), and Philippians 2:12-13 sets that effort beside God’s own work in the believer. The NIV’s words “Do your best” come…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 4704, σπουδάζω (spoudazo): to make haste, hence to give diligence; Thayer’s lexicon lists 2 Timothy 4:9, 4:21 and Titus 3:12 under “to hasten” and 2 Timothy 2:15 and 2 Peter 1:10 under “to exert oneself, endeavor.” biblehub.com/greek/4704

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