37 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

and patience, experience, and experience, hope;

knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father,

And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience.

that you be not stupid, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

by your patience you shall save your souls.

Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

I know your works and love and faith and service and your patience, and your last works more than the first.

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

and you have patience, and suffered for my name, and did not faint.

But remember the former days, in which having been enlightened you endured a great conflict with sufferings,

Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman who labors must first partake of the fruits of the earth.

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

that the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

who will render to each according to his works;

pray without ceasing,

praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.

in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false;

confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.