Revelation 2:3

The Letter To The Church In Ephesus

² I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars; ³ and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied: ⁴ but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

For My Name

For My Sake

Bore Up

John 15:21

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

Psalm 69:7

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

Micah 7:9

I will bear the indignation of Jehovah for I have sinned against him until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his righteousness.

Mark 15:21

And they compel to go with them a certain passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry his cross.

Luke 8:15

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 14:27

and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Luke 18:1

And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,

Luke 21:19

By your patient endurance gain your souls.

Romans 2:7

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

Romans 5:3-4

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

Romans 8:25

But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

Romans 12:12

As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

Romans 15:4-5

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 16:12

Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:7

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn us, we faint not.

2 Corinthians 4:16

Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

2 Corinthians 6:5

in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

2 Corinthians 10:15

not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the Christ.

Galatians 6:9

but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 4:3

yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Colossians 1:11

strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:12

But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you,

2 Thessalonians 3:5

But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

2 Thessalonians 3:13

But ye, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.

1 Timothy 4:10

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

Hebrews 6:12

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

Hebrews 6:15

and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:1

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

Hebrews 12:3-5

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

Hebrews 13:13

therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach:

James 1:3-4

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

James 5:7-11

Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive the early and the latter rain.

2 Peter 1:6

in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and patience, in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.