16 Bible Verses about Steadfastness
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So as not to come among these nations, these being left with you; and ye shall not make mention of the name of their gods, and ye shall not swear, and ye shall not serve them, and ye shall not worship to them:
And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.
If iniquity in thy hand, remove it far off, and wickedness shall not dwell in thy tents.
For then thou shalt lift up thy face from spot; and thou wert firm, and thou shalt not fear:
Who, having been present, and seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and besought them all, with purpose of heart, to remain to the Lord.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.
That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;
Only live as citizens worthy of the good news of Christ: that whether coming and seeing you, whether being absent, I shall bear the things concerning you, that ye stand in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in faith of the good news;
Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved.
For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.
Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.
Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.
You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.

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Discipleship » Conditions of » Steadfastness
Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples.
Paul » Characteristics of » Steadfastness
But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » In persevering to the end
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,
And the synagogue having been dissolved, many of the Jews and strangers worshipping, followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.
Behold, I come swiftly: hold what thou hast, that none take thy crown.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » In moving forward toward the goal
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
Only be strong and be greatly active, to watch to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee: thou shalt not turn aside from it to the right and to the left, so that thou shalt be wise in all things where thou shalt go.
And they will go each over against his face; to where the spirit will be there to go, they will go; they will not turn in their going.
And watch ye to do as Jehovah your God commanded right: ye shall not turn aside to the right and to the left.
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » In enduring hardship
Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.
And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.
If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?
For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » Even under affliction
For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.
All this came to us, and we did not forget thee, and we lied not in thy covenant Our heart drew not back, and thou wilt not incline our going from thy path; For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter. But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us.
Steadfastness » Commanded
Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved.
And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways.
Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.
Steadfastness » Secured by » God, Power of
And to him able to watch yourselves from falling, and to place blameless before his glory with transport of joy,
Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.
Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Surely he my rock and my salvation, my height; I shall not be greatly moved.
Steadfastness » Ministers » Should pray for, in their people
To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.
Comfort your hearts, and support you in every good word and work.
Steadfastness » Remaining steadfast
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.
Steadfastness » Exhibited by God in all his purposes and ways
From before me a decree was set forth that in every dominion of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and standing forever, and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed, and his dominion even to the end.
Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.
God is not man, and will he lie? and the son of man, and will he grieve? Did he say, and will he not do? and speak, and will he not establish?
Steadfastness » Who shall not be moved
Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain? He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart. Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor. read more.
In his eyes a reprobate being despised; and those fearing Jehovah, he will honor. Swearing to the friend, and he will not change. Not giving his silver for interest, and gave not presents against the innocent. He doing these things shall not be moved forever.
Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.
To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting to David. Surely my soul was silent to God: from him my salvation. Surely he my rock and my salvation, my height; I shall not be greatly moved.
For the king trusted in Jehovah, and in the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Job, in his religious life
And the Lord Jehovah will help to me: for this I was not ashamed; for this I set my face as the flint, and I shall know that I shall not be ashamed.
My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In cleaving to God
Who, having been present, and seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and besought them all, with purpose of heart, to remain to the Lord.
Jehovah thy God shalt thou fear; him .shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and in his name shalt thou swear.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In holding fast our profession
We should hold the assent of hope not bending; (for faithful he having promised;)
Having therefore a great chief priest, passed to the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold firmly the assent.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In keeping the faith
For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » A man of God, in refusing a reward
And the man of God will say to the king, If thou wilt give to me half thy house I will not go with thee, and I will not eat bread and I will not drink water in this place:
And he will cleave upon Jehovah he turned not away from after him, and he will watch his commands which Jehovah commanded Moses.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In striving for the faith of the gospel
Only live as citizens worthy of the good news of Christ: that whether coming and seeing you, whether being absent, I shall bear the things concerning you, that ye stand in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in faith of the good news;
Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Paul, in finishing his course
And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul.
But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In holding fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope
For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;
And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.
Steadfastness » The wicked devoid of
And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.
And their heart was not right with him, and they were not firm in his covenant
Steadfastness » Ministers » Should exhort to
And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.
And the synagogue having been dissolved, many of the Jews and strangers worshipping, followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Christ, in going to the cross
And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.
And it was in the days of his acceptation being completed, and he fixed his face to go into Jerusalem.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In holding fast what is good
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In standing fast in the faith
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In the work of the lord
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Steadfastness » Ministers » Encouraged by, in their people
Steadfastness » Want of--illustrated
And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away.
And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture.
Steadfastness » A characteristic of saints
Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples.
And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Corinthians
And I make known to you, brethren, the good news which I announced to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stood;
Steadfastness » Ministers » Exhorted to
Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus. Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.
Steadfastness » Principle of--illustrated
Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock. And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew, and fell upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Colossians
For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » David
For I watched the ways of Jehovah, and I acted not wickedly from my God. For all his judgments are before me, and his laws I shall not put away from me.
Steadfastness » Ministers » Rejoiced by, in their people
For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In maintaining Christian liberty
Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Caleb
And my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, and he will follow after me, and I brought him into the land which he went there; and his seed shall inherit it.
Steadfastness » Secured by » The intercession of Christ
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you, to sift as wheat: And I have supplicated for thee that thy faith fail not: and thou, when having turned back, confirm thy brethren.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Joshua
And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Josiah, in his duties as a king
And he will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah, and go in all the way of David his father, and he turned not aside to the right or the left
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Peter and john
And Peter and John having answered to them, said, If it is just before God to hear you rather than God, judge ye. For we cannot, the things we have seen and heard, not speak.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Josiah
And he will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah, and go in all the way of David his father, and he turned not aside to the right or the left
Steadfastness » Godliness necessary to
If thou preparedst thy heart, and didst spread thy hands towards him; If iniquity in thy hand, remove it far off, and wickedness shall not dwell in thy tents. For then thou shalt lift up thy face from spot; and thou wert firm, and thou shalt not fear:
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Three hebrew captives
And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves:
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Shadrach
And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves:
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Daniel
And Daniel as soon as he knew that the writing was signed, went up into his house; and the windows being opened to him in his upper chambers before Jerusalem, three times in the day he kneeled upon his knees, and praying and praising before his God, for the cause that he did from before this
Steadfastness » God being steadfast
From before me a decree was set forth that in every dominion of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and standing forever, and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed, and his dominion even to the end.
Steadfastness » Saints praise God for
For thou deliveredst my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from a fall.
Steadfastness » Secured by » The presence of God
I set Jehovah before me always: for from my right hand I shall not be moved.
Steadfastness » Secured by » Trust in God
TO David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I went in mine integrity, and in Jehovah I trusted: I shall not waver.
Steadfastness » Saints pray for
Steadfastness » Should be manifested » In continuing in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship
And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.
Steadfastness » Exemplified » Primitive Christians
And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.
Topics on Steadfastness
Steadfastness, Examples Of
1 Kings 13:8And the man of God will say to the king, If thou wilt give to me half thy house I will not go with thee, and I will not eat bread and I will not drink water in this place:
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