Bible Verses about “finishing well”
The Bible contains 26 verses about finishing well across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“‹For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have› [sufficient] ‹to finish› [it]?”
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:”
“¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”
“That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;”
“‹Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish› [it], ‹all that behold› [it] ‹begin to mock him,›”
“‹Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.›”
“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.”
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;”
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:”
“¶ Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:”
“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:”
“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.”
“Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.”
“Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.”
“Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.”