37 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

and patience experience,

knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;

but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.

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

Incessantly remembering your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father:

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed the gospel, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence; be still working out your own salvation though with fear and trembling:

to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life:

but if we hope for what we see not, then we wait for it with patience.

that ye would not be sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

In your patience therefore possess your souls.

Wherefore, my brethren, be the more diligent thus to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things ye shall never fall.

For ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.

Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,

and thy love, and thy service, and thy faith, and thy patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

And to this giving all diligence, add to your faith fortitude;

and for my name's sake thou hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which after being enlightened, ye sustained a great conflict of sufferings;

Do thou therefore endure hardship, as becomes a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman must labour first, in order to partake of the fruits.

exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

That the proof of your faith, which is much more precious than of gold, (that perisheth, though tried by fire) may be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, when Jesus Christ shall be revealed:

who will render to every one according to his works:

Pray continually.

praying at all seasons with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance, and intercession for all the saints;

I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

And let us not be weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Maintain the glorious combat of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast made a good profession before many witnesses.

Now no chastening seems for the present to be matter of joy but of grief: and yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that are exercised thereby.

And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles,

But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you; who always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God:

I know thy works, and behold I have given thee an open door, and no one shall be able to 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 labor, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear those that are evil: and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars; and hast borne trouble, and hast patience;

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