36 Bible Verses about Hard Work And Perseverance

Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him.

and patience, proof; and proof, hope;

knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.

But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;

without ceasing calling to mind your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always been obedient, not only during my presence with you, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling work out your own salvation.

to those who, in the patient practice of good works, seek glory and honour and immortality??ternal life.

But if we hope for what we see not, we with patience expect it.

that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble:

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

THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,

I know thy deeds, and thy love, and thy charity to the poor, and thy faith, and thy patience, and thy works, and that the last are more abundant than the first.

and hast borne, and hast exercised patience, and for my name sake hast endured great toil, and hast not fainted.

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Thou therefore endure hardships, as a brave soldier of Jesus Christ.

The husbandman who toils is the first who ought to partake of the fruits.

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

that the test of your faith (much more precious than that of gold, which is of a perishing nature, though proved by fire) may be found unto praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

who will recompense to every man according to his works;

Pray without ceasing.

praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;

I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:

Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.

Let us not then be weary of well-doing; for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not.

Strain every nerve in the noble conflict of faith, lay fast hold on eternal life, unto which also thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

Now all correction at the moment seemeth not to be cause for joy, but for sorrow; but after a while it produceth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have thereby been disciplined.

And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness;

But ye have known the trial of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; because thou hast but little strength, yet hast thou kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

I know thy works, and thy travail, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked; and hast tried those who give themselves out as apostles, yet are not, and hast found them liars;

strengthening the souls of the brethren, exhorting them to abide firm in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must pass into the kingdom of heaven.