38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect it.

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

in your patience possess ye your souls.

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

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

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last are more than the first.

And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

who shall render to each according to his works;

continually pray ye;

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

Salute you doth Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

I have known thy works; lo, I have set before thee a door -- opened, and no one is able to shut it, because thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name;

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,