38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

patience bringeth experience, experience bringeth hope,

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.

Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience,

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, as ye have always obeyed - not when I was present only, but now much more in mine absence - even so work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

that is to say: praise, honour, and immortality, to them which continue in good doing, and seek eternal life.

But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.

that ye faint not, but follow them which through faith and patience inherit the promises.

With your patience, possess your souls.

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence for to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do such things, ye shall never err.

For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Wherefore let us also - seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses - lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,

I know thy works and thy love, service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy deeds, which are more at the last than at the first.

And hereunto, give all diligence: In your faith, minister virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

And didst wash thyself, and hast patience: and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

But pluck you up your hearts and let not your hands faint, for your works shall be rewarded."

Call to remembrance the days that are passed in the which, after ye had received light, ye endured a great fight in adversities,

Thou therefore suffer affliction as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.

holding fast the word of life, unto my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither have laboured in vain.

that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

which will reward every man according to his deeds,

Pray continually.

and pray always with all manner prayer and supplication - and that in the spirit - and watch thereunto with all instance and supplication for all saints,

I have fought a good fight, and have fulfilled my course, and have kept the faith.

Perceive ye not how that they which run in a course, run all, yet but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain.

Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hand on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

No manner chastising for the present time seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness unto them which are therein exercised.

Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown.

in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

Ye know the proof of him, how that as a son with the father, so with me bestowed he his labour upon the gospel.

Epaphras the servant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and always laboureth fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect, and full in all that is the will of God.

I know your works. Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it, for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my sayings: and hast not denied my name.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not forbear them which are evil: and examinedst them which say they are apostles, and are not: and hast found them liars.

and strengthened the disciples souls: exhorting them to continue in the faith, affirming that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.