Bible Verses About Perseverance
Scripture on holding on — running the race, enduring to the end, and not growing weary.
The Christian life is less a sprint than a long obedience — and Scripture is full of encouragement to keep going. It promises that endurance is not wasted and the finish line is real. These verses are for the weary who need to hold on.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap.
Wherefore 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,
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
I have fought a good fight... I have kept the faith.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Be ye stedfast, unmoveable... your labour is not in vain.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Ye have need of patience, that... ye might receive the promise.
The reaping comes to those who do not faint. You do not have to run fast, only to keep running. Lift your head, take the next step, and hold on — the harvest is promised in due season.
