37 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

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

knowing that tribulation worketh patience, And patience experience, and experience hope;

But let patience have it's perfect work,

that ye may be perfect and intire, wanting nothing.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

Remembring without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

and honour, and immortality, eternal life.

But if we hope for what we see not, we patiently wait for it.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and long suffering inherited the promises.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election firm; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

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

Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily besetteth us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith;

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

For this very reason giving all diligence, add to your faith courage,

and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not fainted.

But call ye to mind the former days, in which, after ye were inlightened, ye endured so great a conflict of sufferings:

Thou therefore endure affliction, is a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman, that laboureth first, must be partaker of the fruits.

Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

That the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold, (that perisheth, tho' it be tried with fire) may be found unto praise, and honour, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Who will render to every one according to his works: To them that by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory,

Pray without ceasing: In every thing give thanks;

which is the word of God, Praying alway by the Spirit with all prayer and supplication, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

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

Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.

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

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

Now all chastning for the present is assuredly not joyous, but grievous; yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby.

And every one that contendeth, is temperate in all things: and they indeed, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

In labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayer, that ye may stand, perfect and filled, with all the will of God.

I know thy works, (behold I have given before thee an opened door, none can shut it) that thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast patience,

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