Bible Verses About Steadfastness: Principle of-Illustrated

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught--abounding in it in thanksgiving.