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Bible verses about perseverance

Scripture compares the life of faith to a race run with patience, and promises a harvest to those who do not grow weary. These verses are for the long haul — keeping on when it is hard, and the reward of not giving up.

  1. Let patience have her perfect work

    James 1:2-4

    My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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  2. Run with patience the race

    Hebrews 12:1

    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,
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  3. Let us not be weary in well doing

    Galatians 6:9

    And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
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  4. Tribulation worketh patience

    Romans 5:3-4

    And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
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  5. I press toward the mark

    Philippians 3:14

    I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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  6. I have finished my course

    2 Timothy 4:7

    I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
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