16 Bible Verses about Steadfastness

Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love.

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.

And they went each one straight forward: wherever the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Behold, we count them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate, and of tender mercy.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

For this is commendable, if a man for conscience toward God endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for you yourselves know that we are appointed unto this.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.

To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill? He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor. read more.
In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not. He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

[To the Chief Musician, to jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.

For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

My foot has held fast to his steps, his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cling unto the Lord.

You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave, and swear by his name.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

And the man of God said unto the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:

For he clung to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

Only let your manner of life be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

Test all things; hold fast that which is good.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be men, be strong.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Those on the rock are they, who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for awhile believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;

The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;

Hold fast the pattern of sound words, which you have heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land in which he went; and his descendants shall possess it.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not: and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge you. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him; If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents. For then shall you lift up your face without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

But if not, be it known unto you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

But if not, be it known unto you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

[A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not.

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.