38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.

So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.

It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Who will give to every man his right reward:

Keep on with your prayers.

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

I have knowledge of your works (see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one), and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name.

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.