Revelation 2:3

The Letter To The Church In Ephesus

² I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false. ³  You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

For My Name

For My Sake

Bore Up

John 15:21

"But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

Mark 15:21

Simon a Cyrenian, a passer-by, who was coming from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), they commandeered to carry the cross of Jesus.

Luke 8:15

"And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 14:27

"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

Luke 18:1

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

Luke 21:19

"In your patience you shall purchase your souls.

Romans 2:7

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

Romans 5:3-4

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

Romans 8:25

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

Romans 15:4-5

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Romans 16:12

Salute Trypheana and Tryphosa, who are ever toiling in the Lord. Salute dear Persis, who has toiled terribly in the Lord's service.

1 Corinthians 13:7

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

2 Corinthians 4:1

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 4:16

For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

2 Corinthians 5:9

And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:5

by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

2 Corinthians 10:15

I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits,

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

Galatians 6:2

Ever be bearing one another's burdens, and so be fulfilling the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Philippians 2:16

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

Philippians 4:3

yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

Colossians 1:11

that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:12

I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:13

But you, brothers, must not grow weary in well-doing.

1 Timothy 4:10

"We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,??f believers in particular.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders who fill their offices well, be held worthy of twofold honor; especially those who have the task of preaching and teaching.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

Hebrews 6:12

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

Hebrews 6:15

And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

Hebrews 12:1

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12:3-5

Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

James 1:3-4

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

James 5:7-11

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

2 Peter 1:6

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

Revelation 1:9

I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.