38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

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

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

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

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

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

"By your endurance you will win your lives.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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

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

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

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

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ --

who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

Pray without ceasing.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his 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, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.

"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.