37 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.

and endurance proof [of faith], and proof [of faith giveth] hope;

knowing that the trying of your faith worketh endurance.

But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.

And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also, knowing that affliction produceth endurance,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and perseverance in the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father;

So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

everlasting life to those who by patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory, and honor, and incorruption;

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

that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.

By your constancy secure your lives.

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

For ye have need of endurance; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive what is promised.

Therefore let us also, being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us;

I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and thy endurance, and that thy last works are more than the first.

even for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

and thou hast endurance, and hast borne on account of my name, and hast not become weary.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great struggle with sufferings;

Endure hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

The husbandman that laboreth must be the first partaker of the fruits.

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold which perisheth, but is tried with fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the manifestation of Jesus Christ;

who will render to every one according to his works;

Pray without ceasing;

praying with all prayer and entreaty at all times in the Spirit; and watching to this end with all perseverance and entreaty for all the saints,

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

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

And let us not be fainthearted in welldoing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on everlasting life, to which thou wast called, and didst profess the good profession before many witnesses.

Now all chastening for the present indeed seemeth to be not joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yieldeth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.

by 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 serves a father, he served with me for the gospel.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

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

I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou didst try those who say they are apostles, and are not, and didst find them liars;

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that it is through many afflictions that we mast enter into the kingdom of God.