49 Bible Verses about Persistence
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And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff 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 labour 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 wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee 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 spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye 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 fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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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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