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 whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”
“Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”
“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”
“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.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“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 patience the race that is set before us,”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
“Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.”
“that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;”
“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”
“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”
“Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.”
“strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;”
“in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;”
“giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;”
“who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;”
“But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.”
“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
“Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.”
“Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.”