Bible Verses About Perseverance

And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God and making him a mockery.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.

And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.

Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised):

Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.

For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled:

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.