38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

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

And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out 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, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.

indeed to those who with patience in good work are seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.

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

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

By your patience you will gain your souls.

Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.

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

Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets 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.

But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;

And you have borne, and have patience, and for My name's sake you have labored and have not fainted.

But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,

Therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

It is right for the laboring farmer to partake first of the fruits.

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

who will render to each according to his works;

Pray without ceasing.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

But we should not lose heart in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

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 chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; 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 greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, 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 given before you an open door, and no one 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 cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.

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