38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

In your patience ye shall win your souls.

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

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

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Suffer hardship with me , as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

who will render to every man according to his works:

pray without ceasing;

with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

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

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child'serveth a father,'so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut), that thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.

I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.