37 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is he who patiently endures trials; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the victor's crown--even the crown of Life--which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.

Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

I know your doings, your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance; and that of late you have toiled harder than you did at first.

But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;

And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary.

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering.

The harvestman who labours in the field must be the first to get a share of the crop.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.

To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions;

Be unceasing in prayer.

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.

Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.

Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint.

Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses.

Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy, but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed through its training a result full of peace--namely, righteousness.

But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.

with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.

But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

I know your doings. I have put an opened door in front of you, which no one can shut; because you have but a little power, and yet you have guarded My word and have not disowned Me.

I know your doings and your toil and patient suffering. And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put to the test those who say that they themselves are Apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars.

Everywhere they strengthened the disciples by encouraging them to hold fast to the faith, and warned them saying, "It is through many afflictions that we must make our way into the Kingdom of God."