49 Bible Verses about Persistence
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And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; constant in prayer;
But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them who desire occasion; that when they glory, they may be found even as we.
That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thus with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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;
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.
Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she wearies me.
Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man:
Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.
Continue in prayer, and watch in it with thanksgiving;
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?
And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?
And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Preach the word; be diligent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
Behold, we count them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate, and of tender mercy.
Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And they were the more urgent, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
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Psalm 40:1[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
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