35 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

Hold out stedfast and you win your souls.

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

I know your doings, your love and loyalty and service and patient endurance; I know you are doing more than you did at first.

I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For he will render to everyone according to what he has done,

never give up prayer,

praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty ??be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.

Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.

Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."