38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

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

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

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

Therefore, my beloved, as you 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 who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

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

That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

In your patience you will gain your souls.

Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

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

I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and your works; and the last to be more than the first.

And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And have endured, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, and have not fainted.

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

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

Pray without ceasing.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thus with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

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

Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

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, to which you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

But you 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 servant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you can not bear them who are evil: and you have tried them who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars:

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