31 Bible Verses about Staying Strong And Not Giving Up

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.

Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

For the Spirit which God has given us is not a spirit of cowardice, but one of power and of love and of sound judgement.

Therefore we are not cowards. Nay, even though our outward man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

and do not leave room for the Devil.

He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart.

who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.

You then, my child, must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.

She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.

I fed you with milk and not with solid food, since for this you were not yet strong enough. And even now you are not strong enough:

Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

and one of you says to them, "I wish you well; keep yourselves warm and well fed," and yet you do not give them what they need; what is the use of that?

For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food.

Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

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,

to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law--in order to win those who are without Law.

He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil.

Through faith Abraham, as soon as God put him to the test, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had joyfully welcomed the promises was on the point of sacrificing his only son

We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled;

not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith.

But now take courage, for there will be no destruction of life among you, but of the ship only.

But, above all, remember that no prophecy in Scripture will be found to have come from the prophet's own prompting;

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.

Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.

"Whenever a strong man, fully armed and equipped, is guarding his own castle, he enjoys peaceful possession of his property;

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

So also faith, if it is unaccompanied by obedience, has no life in it--so long as it stands alone.