38 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

By your patient endurance gain your souls.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and thine endurance, and thy last works to be more than the first.

But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,

and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:

But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

who shall render to each according to his works:

pray unceasingly;

praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an opened door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;

establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.