Matthew 23:24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Luke 13:24 "Strain every nerve to force your way in through the narrow gate," He answered; "for multitudes, I tell you, will endeavour to find a way in and will not succeed. (WEY)
Exodus 18:23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace." (See NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun? (See RSV)
Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I: 'Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; strain not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.' (JPS)