37 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

and endurance, approval; and approval, hope:

Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.

But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance;

incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father;

So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

to those indeed who with patience of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

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

in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.

In your patience gain your souls.

Therefore, brethren, be the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things you can never fall.

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

I know your works, and your divine love, and faith, and ministry, and patience, and your works: the last more than the first.

And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge;

and you have patience and have borne with them for my name's sake, and have not fainted.

But remember the former days, in which, you being illuminated by the Spirit, endured a great fight of afflictions;

Suffer affliction, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

It behooves the toiling farmer first to partake of the fruits.

having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

who will give to each one according to his works:

pray without ceasing;

praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit in every place, and watching unto this same thing in all perseverance and prayer for all the saints,

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

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.

But let us not get weary doing that which is good: for in due time we will reap, fainting not.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.

Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it.

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.

I know your works; behold, I have given before you an open door, which no one is able to shut: and you have a little power, and you have kept my word, and not denied my name.

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and that you are not able to bear the wicked; and you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them to be liars:

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and it behooves them through many tribulations to enter into the kingdom of God.