Bible Verses About Perseverance

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”

2 Chronicles 15:7

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Psalms 129:2

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Proverbs 4:18

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

Luke 18:1

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

1 Corinthians 9:24

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:12

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Colossians 1:11

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Colossians 1:23

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 6:15

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

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

James 5:11

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Revelation 2:3

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

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

Galatians 6:9

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Hebrews 10:36