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This collection has 16 Bible verses about perseverance — 3 from the Old Testament and 13 from the New Testament. Hebrews appears most often (2 verses), across 14 books of Scripture.
What does the Bible say about perseverance? Read 16 carefully selected Bible verses about perseverance, with full scripture text you can save, share, and study.
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"Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
"Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
"I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith."
"Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible."
"For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise."
"But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience."
"Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
"But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint."
"“By your endurance you will win your lives."
"Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life."
"But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you."
"A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way. Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand."
"for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity."
"strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;"
"But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right."
"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."
This collection has 16 Bible verses about perseverance — 3 from the Old Testament and 13 from the New Testament. Hebrews appears most often (2 verses), across 14 books of Scripture. What does the Bible say about perseverance? Read 16 carefully selected Bible verses about perseverance, with full scripture text you can save, share, and study.
Hebrews 12:1-2 — “Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Philippians 3:13-14 — “Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
2 Timothy 4:7 — “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”
Full collection: 16 verses on this page (19% Old Testament, 81% New Testament).
This page curates 16 verses about perseverance from 14 books. Hebrews is the most frequent source (2 verses). Scripture touches the theme in many places; these are the ones readers look up most often for study and encouragement.
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