43 Bible Verses about Persistence

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

No, I intend to go on as I am doing, in order to checkmate those who would fain make out that in the apostolate of which they boast they work on the same terms as I do.

so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

Hold out stedfast and you win your souls.

I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty ??be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

And even the others will be grafted in, if they do not adhere to their unbelief; God can graft them in again.

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

This is what shows the patience of the saints ??they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.

For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left,

piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her ??not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.'

"In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man.

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves;

Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?

He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.

Take care, keep awake and pray; you never know the time.

Attend to your prayers, maintain your zest for prayer by thanksgiving;

I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

That sort of suasion does not come from Him who called you!

And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

contribute to needy saints, make a practice of hospitality.

always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.