Bible Verses About Perseverance

Romans 5:3-5

Not only that, but we also boast in our suffering, since suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Hope doesn't put us to shame, because our Father's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.

James 1:2-4

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

James 1:12

Blessed is the one who endures trial, because once tested they'll receive the crown of life our Father promised to those who love him.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in affliction, be devoted to prayer.

Hebrews 12:1-3

So, with so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let's strip off every weight and the sin that clings so tightly, and run with endurance the race laid out before us. Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of our Father's throne. Weigh how he endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so you don't grow weary or lose heart.

1 Corinthians 9:24-25

Don't you know all runners in a race run, but only one gets the prize? Run to win. Everyone who competes disciplines himself in everything, to win a crown that fades—but ours does not.

Philippians 3:13-14

Brothers, I don't count myself as having grasped it yet. But one thing: forgetting what's behind, reaching for what's ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of our Father's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now a crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day—not only to me but to all who have loved his appearing.

Galatians 6:9

Let's not tire of doing good—we'll reap a harvest in due time if we don't give up.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

So we don't give up. Even as our outer person decays, our inner person is renewed day by day. For this light, momentary suffering produces for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, so we fix attention not on visible things but invisible ones, for the visible is passing but the invisible is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

Isaiah 40:29-31

He gives power to the weary, and increases strength for the powerless. Even youths will grow faint and weary, and young men will fall exhausted; but those who wait for our Father will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary; they will walk and not faint.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always overflowing in the Lord's work, knowing your labor in the Lord is not wasted.

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold tightly to the hope we declare, unshaken, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:35-36

So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward. You need endurance, so that having done our Father's will, you may receive the promise.

Matthew 24:13

but the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Philippians 1:6

I'm confident of this very thing: the one who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord guide your hearts into our Father's love and into Christ's endurance.

1 Peter 5:10

And our Father of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and ground you after brief suffering.

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but our Father is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.