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 you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
• Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Jas 1:3–4knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
• Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
• John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
• Heb 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• Heb 6:12that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
• Rom 5:3–4Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
• 2 Th 3:13But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.
• 1 Cor 13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
• Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
• 1 Tim 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Heb 12:3–5For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
• 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Luke 14:27Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
• 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Rev 1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Pet 1:6and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;
• Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
• Luke 18:1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
• Rom 15:4–5For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• 2 Cor 5:9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
• 2 Cor 10:15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
• Ps 69:7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
• Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
• 1 Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
• 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
• 2 Th 3:8neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
• Heb 13:13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
• 2 Cor 6:5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
• Phil 4:3Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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