16 Bible Verses about Steadfastness

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

And [after] the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them [and] were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.

But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"

Only be strong and very courageous {to observe diligently the whole law} that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, [to] the right or left, so that you may succeed {wherever you go}.

And each {went straight forward}; {wherever the spirit went} they went, [and] {they did not turn as they went}.

"[So] you must be careful to do [just] as Yahweh your God commanded you; you shall not turn [to the] right or [to the] left.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

Behold, we consider blessed those who have endured. You have heard about the patient endurance of Job, and you saw the outcome from the Lord, that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end--this one will be saved.

Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?

For this [finds] favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows [while] suffering unjustly.

[so that] no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For [you] yourselves know that we are appointed for this,

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way. But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword? Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter." [No], but in all these [things] we prevail completely through the one who loved us.

So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.

But let him ask for [it] in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions which you were taught, whether by [spoken] word or by letter from us.

Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make [you] to stand before his glory blameless with exultation,

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

so that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

encourage your hearts and strengthen [you] in every good work and word.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions which you were taught, whether by [spoken] word or by letter from us.

{I make a decree} that in all the dominion of my kingdom [people] will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he [is] the living God and endures {forever} and his kingdom [is] one that will not be destroyed and his {dominion has no end}.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

God [is] not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do [it]? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it

O Yahweh, who may reside in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right. He who speaks honestly in his heart. He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor. read more.
In his eyes a rejected one [is] contemptible, but he honors those who respect Yahweh. He takes an oath to [his own] injury and does not retract it. He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against [the] innocent. He who does these [things] will never be shaken.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Only for God my soul [waits in] silence. From him [is] my salvation. Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Because the king trusts Yahweh, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.

And the Lord Yahweh helps me, therefore I have not been put to shame; therefore I have set my face like flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed;

I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame [any] of my days.

My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.

who, [when he] arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged [them] all to remain true to the Lord with {devoted hearts},

Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear.

Let us hold fast to the confession of [our] hope without wavering, for the one who promised [is] faithful.

Therefore, [because we] have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

{Resist him}, steadfast in your faith, [because you] know the same [kinds] of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

Then the man of God said to the king, "Even if you give to me half of your house I will not come with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place,

He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Dear friends, [although I] was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered [it] a necessity to write to you to encourage [you] to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of [our] commitment steadfast until the end,

but Christ [was faithful] as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."

And [after] the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them [and] were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.

Now it happened that when the days were approaching {for him to be taken up}, he set [his] face to go to Jerusalem.

but examine all [things]; hold fast to [what is] good.

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

because now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

And those on the rock [are those] who receive the word with joy when they hear [it], and these do not have [enough] root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

And other [seed] fell on the rock, and [when it] came up, it withered, because it did not have moisture.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

But [the] righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands} increases in strength.

Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, in which you also stand,

Hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you heard from me, in the faith and love [that are] in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not collapse, because its foundation was laid on the rock.

for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God, because all his ordinances [are] before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me,

for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that {he entered}, and his offspring will take possession of it.

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, [when] once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in all of the way of David his ancestor and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

But Peter and John answered [and] said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you decide! For we are not able to refrain from speaking about [the things] that we have seen and heard."

He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in all of the way of David his ancestor and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

"If you yourself direct your heart and stretch out your hands to him-- if iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents-- surely then you will lift up your face without blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear.

And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that {we will not serve your gods}, and the statue of gold that you have set up we will not worship."

And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that {we will not serve your gods}, and the statue of gold that you have set up we will not worship."

Now {when} Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house ({now he had windows in his upper room that were open} toward Jerusalem), and three times {daily} he knelt on his knees and prayed and [gave] praise before his God, {just as} he had been doing {previously}.

{I make a decree} that in all the dominion of my kingdom [people] will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he [is] the living God and endures {forever} and his kingdom [is] one that will not be destroyed and his {dominion has no end}.

For you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because [he is] at my right hand I will not be shaken.

Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.

[I have] held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.