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Striving [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of making efforts; contest; contention.

2. Avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the law. Titus 3:9 .

Striving [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making efforts; exerting the power of body or mind with earnestness; contending.

Striving Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Strive.

Striving [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Strive

Strivingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With earnest efforts; with struggles.

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8 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Striving”

2 Samuel 22:44

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

Psalms 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

Galatians 1:10

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Philippians 1:27

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Colossians 1:29

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

Hebrews 12:4

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

2 Esdras 12:18

That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.

Wisdom of Solomon 4:2

When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.