Bible Verses about “finishing what you start”

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

“And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”

“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

“‹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:”

“¶ 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,”

“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:”

“¶ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;”

“‹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.›”

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;”

“Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”

“¶ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”

“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:”

“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”

“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:”

“¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.”

“Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.”

“Jesus saith unto them, ‹My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.›”

“¶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”

“‹Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.›”

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

“Now therefore perform the doing [of it]; that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance also out of that which ye have.”

“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;”

“For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not.”

“¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:”

“To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,”

“Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,”

“Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:”

“But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”

“And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.”

“Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

“And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:”

“¶ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,”

“Receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls.”

“Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.”

“¶ Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you:”

“Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.”

“¶ So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days.”

“And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard [thereof], and all the heathen that [were] about us saw [these things], they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.”