38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

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

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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

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

Wherefore, my beloved, 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 who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

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

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

In your patience possess ye your souls.

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

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

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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 charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

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

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

Be ye 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 ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

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

The husbandman that laboureth 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 laboured in vain.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour 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 thereunto 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 ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye 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, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

And every man that striveth for the mastery 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 ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man 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 them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast 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.