18 Bible Verses about Perseverance

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plough, and then looks back, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plough, and then looks back, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

To him who is victorious and continues to the end to do the things that please me, I will give authority over the heathen??27 just such authority as I received from my Father; he will shepherd them with an iron staff and shatter them like earthen jars!??28 and I will give him the morning star.

reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.

For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end.

but Christ's faithfulness was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are that house, if we keep up our courage and our triumphant hope to the very end.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

But you, brothers, must not get tired of doing right.

Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

Use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity pray in the Spirit. Be on the alert about it; devote yourselves constantly to prayer for all God's people

For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

Observe then the goodness and the severity of God??everity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, provided you abide by his goodness, for otherwise, you in your turn will be pruned away.

reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do. But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope,

fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

O Simon, Simon! Satan has obtained permission to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And afterward you yourself must turn and strengthen your brothers."

For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age, and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

but Christ's faithfulness was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are that house, if we keep up our courage and our triumphant hope to the very end.

and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plough, and then looks back, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."