Bible Verses About Perseverance

and then have fallen away — it is impossible to renew them so that they turn from their sin, as long as for themselves they keep executing the Son of God on the stake all over again and keep holding him up to public contempt.

For God is not so unfair as to forget your work and the love you showed for him in your past service to his people — and in your present service too.

However, we want each one of you to keep showing the same diligence right up to the end, when your hope will be realized;

so that you will not become sluggish, but will be imitators of those who by their trust and patience are receiving what has been promised.

and so, after waiting patiently, Avraham saw the promise fulfilled.

Therefore, when God wanted to demonstrate still more convincingly the unchangeable character of his intentions to those who were to receive what he had promised, he added an oath to the promise;

so that through two unchangeable things, in neither of which God could lie, we, who have fled to take a firm hold on the hope set before us, would be strongly encouraged.

Let us continue holding fast to the hope we acknowledge, without wavering; for the One who made the promise is trustworthy.

So don’t throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward.

For you need to hold out; so that, by having done what God wills, you may receive what he has promised.

So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment — that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement — and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us,

looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua — who, in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Yes, think about him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you won’t grow tired or become despondent.

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in the contest against sin.

Also you have forgotten the counsel which speaks with you as sons: “My son, don’t despise the discipline of Adonai or become despondent when he corrects you.

For Adonai disciplines those he loves and whips everyone he accepts as a son.”

Regard your endurance as discipline; God is dealing with you as sons. For what son goes undisciplined by his father?

All legitimate sons undergo discipline; so if you don’t, you’re a mamzer and not a son!

Furthermore, we had physical fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them; how much more should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!

For they disciplined us only for a short time and only as best they could; but he disciplines us in a way that provides genuine benefit to us and enables us to share in his holiness.

Now, all discipline, while it is happening, does indeed seem painful, not enjoyable; but for those who have been trained by it, it later produces its peaceful fruit, which is righteousness.

So, strengthen your drooping arms, and steady your tottering knees;

and make a level path for your feet; so that what has been injured will not get wrenched out of joint but rather will be healed.

See to it that no one misses out on God’s grace, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and thus contaminates many,

Do not be carried away by various strange teachings; for what is good is for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods. People who have made these the focus of their lives have not benefited thereby.