38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

and the patience finishes the work, that ye may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

And not only this, but we even glory in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works patience;

remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always hearkened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own saving health with fear and trembling.

to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;

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

that ye not become slothful, but imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

In your patience ye shall possess your souls.

Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.

for patience is necessary, so that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

I have known thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works and the last to be more than the first.

Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge;

and hast suffered, and doth suffer and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

Be ye strong, therefore, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

Thou, therefore, work hard as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman, in order to receive the fruits, must first work hard.

holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;

who will render to everyone according to his deeds:

Pray without ceasing.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;

Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it.

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 faith, lay hold on eternal life, unto which thou art also called, having made a good profession before many witnesses.

It is true that no chastening at present seems to be cause for joy, but rather for grief; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised by it.

And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible one.

in labour and travail, in many watches, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness.

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand firm, perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God.

I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no one can shut it, for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name.

I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear those who are evil; and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles and are not and hast found them liars,

confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.