Bible Verses about “finishing what you start”

“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”

“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”

“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.”

“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,”

“being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--”

“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.'”

“but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;”

“because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."”

“On the seventh day God finished 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, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”

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

“as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,”

“that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--”

“Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:”

“The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.”

“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”

“Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.”

“Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,”

“but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;”

“Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.”

“having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.”

“But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.”

“according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.”

“knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,”

“For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.”

“For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;”

“to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,”

“who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,”

“who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

“whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--”

“but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.”

“I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.”

“who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.”

“If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:”

“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,”

“receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”

“To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.”

“Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,”

“searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.”

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

“It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.”