Bible Verses About Steadfastness: Even under affliction

All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

(according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,