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100 Bible Verses About Hope & Perseverance


James 1:12
 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Romans 2:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

James 5:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Matthew 10:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 3:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

1 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Colossians 1:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Hebrews 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

Hebrews 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

2 Timothy 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

John 8:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

Revelation 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

James 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

James 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Hebrews 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

2 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 15:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 10:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Matthew 24:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Hosea 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”

Jeremiah 32:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Psalm 37:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the Lord upholds his hand.

Job 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Revelation 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

Revelation 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

Revelation 2:25-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star.

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

Revelation 2:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

1 John 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

2 Peter 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

1 Peter 1:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

James 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Hebrews 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.

Hebrews 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Hebrews 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Hebrews 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,

Hebrews 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

Hebrews 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

Hebrews 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Hebrews 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Titus 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

2 Timothy 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it

2 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

2 Thessalonians 2:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

But test everything; hold fast what is good.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.

Colossians 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Colossians 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

2 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

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