50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong And Not Giving Up

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

But as for you, be strong and don't get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded."

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

A wise warrior is strong, and a man of knowledge makes his strength stronger;

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

Do not give the devil an opportunity.

He said to me, "Don't be afraid, you who are valued. Peace be to you! Be strong! Be really strong!" When he spoke to me, I was strengthened. I said, "Sir, you may speak now, for you have given me strength."

Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He gives strength to those who are tired; to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.

He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired, but you do not say, 'I give up.' You get renewed energy, so you don't collapse.

The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For he is the one who gives me confidence.

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.

David said to his son Solomon: "Be strong and brave! Do it! Don't be afraid and don't panic! For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord's temple is finished.

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

If the anger of the ruler flares up against you, do not resign from your position, for a calm response can undo great offenses.

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

If you will just stay in this land, I will build you up. I will not tear you down. I will firmly plant you. I will not uproot you. For I am filled with sorrow because of the disaster that I have brought on you.

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ's faithfulness -- a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ's faithfulness.

And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet's own imagination,

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

The Lord told Joshua, "Don't be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. Not one of them can resist you."

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.