38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

And let endurance have [its] perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

By your patient endurance you will gain your lives.

Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works [are] greater than the first.

and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,

And you have patient endurance, and have endured [many things] because of my name, and have not become weary.

But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

Suffer together with [me] as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

who will reward each one according to his works:

pray constantly,

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this [end] being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

I have fought the good fight, I have completed the race, I have kept the faith.

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.

But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.

Epaphras, who is [one] of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

'I know your works (behold, I have put before you an opened door that no one is able to shut) that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and did not deny my name.

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."