PERSEVERANCE

Passages on this topic · 154

• Genesis 32:24

  Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

• Genesis 32:25

  When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

• Genesis 32:26

  The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”

• Numbers 14:24

  But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

• Numbers 14:38

  But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

• 1 Chronicles 16:11

  Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

• Job 17:9

  Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

• Psalms 37:24

  Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

• Psalms 37:28

  For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

• Psalms 73:24

  You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

• Psalms 138:8

  Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

• Proverbs 4:18

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

• Jeremiah 32:40

  and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

• Hosea 12:6

  Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

• Matthew 10:22

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

• Matthew 24:13

  But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

• Mark 4:3

  “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

• Mark 4:4

  and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

• Mark 4:5

  Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

• Mark 4:6

  When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

• Mark 4:7

  Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

• Mark 4:8

  Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

• Mark 13:13

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

• Luke 10:42

  but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

• Luke 22:31

  The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

• Luke 22:32

  but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

• John 6:37

  All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

• John 6:39

  This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

• John 6:40

  This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

• John 8:31

  Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

• John 8:32

  You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

• John 10:28

  I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

• John 10:29

  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

• John 15:4

  Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

• John 15:5

  I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

• John 15:7

  If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

• John 15:9

  Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

• Acts 11:23

  who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

• Acts 13:43

  Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

• Acts 14:21

  When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

• Acts 14:22

  confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

• Romans 2:6

  who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

• Romans 2:7

  to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

• Romans 8:30

  Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

• Romans 8:33

  Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

• Romans 8:34

  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

• Romans 8:35

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

• Romans 8:37

  No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

• Romans 8:38

  For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

• Romans 8:39

  nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Romans 11:29

  For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

• 1 Corinthians 1:8

  who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 1:9

  God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 15:1

  Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

• 1 Corinthians 15:2

  by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.

• 1 Corinthians 15:58

  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 16:13

  Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

• 2 Corinthians 1:21

  Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

• 2 Corinthians 1:22

  who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

• 2 Corinthians 5:9

  Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

• 2 Corinthians 5:15

  He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

• Galatians 5:1

  Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

• Galatians 5:10

  I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

• Galatians 6:9

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

• Ephesians 4:14

  that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

• Ephesians 6:13

  Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

• Ephesians 6:18

  with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

• Philippians 1:6

  being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

• Philippians 1:27

  Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

• Philippians 3:16

  Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

• Philippians 4:1

  Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

• Colossians 1:10

  that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

• Colossians 1:22

  yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

• Colossians 1:23

  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 is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

• Colossians 2:7

  rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:8

  For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:13

  to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21

  Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:15

  So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:16

  Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:17

  comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:13

  But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.

• 2 Timothy 1:12

  For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

• 2 Timothy 1:13

  Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:1

  You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:3

  You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:12

  If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

• 2 Timothy 3:14

  But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

• 2 Timothy 4:18

  And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

• Titus 1:9

  holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

• Hebrews 2:1

  Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

• Hebrews 3:5

  Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

• Hebrews 3:6

  but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

• Hebrews 3:14

  For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

• Hebrews 4:14

  Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

• Hebrews 6:1

  Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection — not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

• Hebrews 6:11

  We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

• Hebrews 6:12

  that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

• Hebrews 6:15

  Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

• Hebrews 6:17

  In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

• Hebrews 6:18

  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

• Hebrews 10:23

  let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

• Hebrews 10:35

  Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

• Hebrews 10:36

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

• Hebrews 12:1

  Therefore 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,

• Hebrews 12:2

  looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Hebrews 12:3

  For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

• Hebrews 12:4

  You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

• Hebrews 12:5

  and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

• Hebrews 12:6

  For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

• Hebrews 12:7

  It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

• Hebrews 12:8

  But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

• Hebrews 12:9

  Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

• Hebrews 12:10

  For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

• Hebrews 12:11

  All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

• Hebrews 12:12

  Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

• Hebrews 12:13

  and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

• Hebrews 12:14

  Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

• Hebrews 12:15

  looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

• Hebrews 13:9

  Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

• Hebrews 13:13

  Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

• James 1:4

  Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• James 1:12

  Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

• James 1:25

  But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

• James 5:10

  Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

• James 5:11

  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.

• 1 Peter 1:4

  to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

• 1 Peter 1:5

  who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

• 1 Peter 1:6

  Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

• 1 Peter 1:7

  that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —

• 1 Peter 5:8

  Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

• 2 Peter 1:10

  Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

• 2 Peter 1:11

  For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

• 2 Peter 3:17

  You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

• 2 Peter 3:18

  But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

• 1 John 2:19

  They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

• 1 John 2:27

  As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

• Revelation 2:7

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

• Revelation 2:10

  Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

• Revelation 2:11

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

• Revelation 2:17

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

• Revelation 2:25

  Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

• Revelation 2:26

  He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

• Revelation 2:27

  He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

• Revelation 2:28

  and I will give him the morning star.

• Revelation 3:5

  He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

• Revelation 3:11

  I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

• Revelation 3:12

  He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

• Revelation 3:21

  He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

• Revelation 14:12

  Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

• Revelation 16:15

  “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

• Revelation 21:7

  He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

• Revelation 21:8

  But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

• Revelation 22:11

  He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”