Revelation 2:3

The Letter To The Church In Ephesus

² I know your doings and your toil and patient suffering. And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put to the test those who say that they themselves are Apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars. ³ And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary. ⁴ Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.

For My Name

For My Sake

Bore Up

John 15:21

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

Mark 15:21

One Simon, a Cyrenaean, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing along, coming from the country: him they compelled to carry His cross.

Luke 8:15

But as for that in the good ground, it means those who, having listened to the Message with open minds and in a right spirit, hold it fast, and patiently yield a return.

Luke 14:27

No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Luke 18:1

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

Luke 21:19

By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.

Romans 2:7

to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

Romans 5:3-4

And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;

Romans 8:25

But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.

Romans 12:12

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

Romans 15:4-5

For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.

Romans 16:12

Greetings to those Christian workers, Tryphaena and Tryphosa; also to dear Persis, who has laboured strenuously in the Lord's work.

1 Corinthians 13:7

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

1 Corinthians 16:16

I beseech you, on your part, to show deference to such men, and to every one who participates in their work and toils hard.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, being engaged in this service and being mindful of the mercy which has been shown us, we are not cowards.

2 Corinthians 4:16

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

2 Corinthians 5:9

And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.

2 Corinthians 6:5

by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;

2 Corinthians 10:15

We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour,

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)

Galatians 6:2

Always carry one another's burdens, and so obey the whole of Christ's Law.

Galatians 6:9

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.

Philippians 2:16

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.

Philippians 4:3

Yes, and I beg you also, my faithful yoke-fellow, to help these women who have shared my toil in connection with the Good News, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are recorded in the Book of Life.

Colossians 1:11

Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully enduring all things with patience and long-suffering;

1 Thessalonians 1:3

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.

1 Thessalonians 5:12

Now we beg you, brethren, to show respect for those who labour among you and are your leaders in Christian work, and are your advisers;

2 Thessalonians 3:5

And may the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it, but we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:13

But you, brethren, must not grow weary in the path of duty;

1 Timothy 4:10

and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the Elders who perform their duties wisely and well be held worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in preaching and teaching.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

Hebrews 6:15

And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised.

Hebrews 10:36

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

Hebrews 12:3-5

Therefore, if you would escape becoming weary and faint-hearted, compare your own sufferings with those of Him who endured such hostility directed against Him by sinners.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, sharing the insults directed against Him.

James 1:3-4

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

James 5:7-11

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.

2 Peter 1:6

along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows and Kingship and patient endurance of Jesus, found myself in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of God and the truth told us by Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because in spite of suffering you have guarded My word, I in turn will guard you from that hour of trial which is soon coming upon the whole world, to put to the test the inhabitants of the earth.