Bible Verses about “persistence”

“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”

“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

“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.”

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”

“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”

“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”

“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”

“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”

“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”

“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”

“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”

“Pray without ceasing.”

“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”

“¶ 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,”

“¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

“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:”

“For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”

“And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”

“But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”

“‹Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast› [some] ‹of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.›”

“¶ And he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;”

“‹And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.›”

“‹And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?›”

“‹I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?›”

“‹For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.›”

“Saying, ‹There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:›”

“‹And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.›”

“‹And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;›”

“‹Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.›”

“And the Lord said, ‹Hear what the unjust judge saith.›”

“‹I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.›”

“And he said unto them, ‹Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;›”