49 Bible Verses about Persistence

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

And let endurance have [its] perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we [are] in what they are boasting about.

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

Therefore I intend to remind you continually concerning these [things], although [you] know [them] and are established in the truth that you have.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By your patient endurance you will gain your lives.

I tell you, even if he does not give him [anything] [after he] gets up because [he] is his friend, at any rate because of his impudence he will get up [and] give him whatever he needs.

and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this [end] being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

But the one who endures to the end--this person will be saved.

And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.

For [if] we keep on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy,

But if you continue to do wickedness, both you and your king will be swept away."

yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'"

saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth.

And he said to them, "Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

Reprove those who sin in the presence of all, in order that the rest also may experience fear.

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

And he told them a parable to [show that] they must always pray and not be discouraged,

Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is!

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,

I tell you that {he will see to it that justice is done} for them soon! Nevertheless, [when] the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?"

This persuasion [is] not from the one who calls you!

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?

And then when he hears the words of this oath, then {he will assure himself} in his heart, {saying}, '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},' thereby destroying the well-watered [land] [along] with the parched.

preach the word, be ready in season [and] out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction.

Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.

Behold, we consider blessed those who have endured. You have heard about the patient endurance of Job, and you saw the outcome from the Lord, that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue [in] rebellion. [The] whole of [the] head [is] sick, and [the] whole of [the] heart [is] faint.

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here."

contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

bears all [things], believes all [things], hopes all [things], endures all [things].

{With patience} a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.