Revelation 2:3

He praises their patient endurance and steadfastness for his name without growing weary. It matters because faithful perseverance under pressure pleases Christ.

Cross-references · 40

• Heb 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Gal 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Heb 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• Jas 1:3–4Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
• Col 1:11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
• John 15:21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• Heb 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• Heb 6:12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
• Rom 5:3–4And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• 2 Th 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
• 1 Cor 13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
• Ps 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
• 1 Tim 4:10For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Rom 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• Heb 12:3–5For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
• 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Luke 14:27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
• 2 Cor 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• Rev 1:9I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Pet 1:6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
• Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
• Luke 18:1And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• Rom 15:4–5For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• 2 Cor 5:9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
• 2 Cor 10:15Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
• Ps 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
• Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
• 1 Th 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• 2 Th 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
• 2 Th 3:8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
• Heb 13:13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
• 2 Cor 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
• Phil 4:3And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

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