Bible verses about "steadfast" | LITV

¹⁸ For I calculate that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to compare to the coming glory to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but through Him subjecting it, on hope; ²¹ that also the creation will be freed from the slavery of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that all the creation groans together and travails together until now. ²³ And not only so, but also we ourselves having the firstfruit of the Spirit, also we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly expecting adoption, the redemption of our body; ²⁴ for we were saved by hope, but hope being seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, through patience we wait eagerly.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and of death.

¹⁸ that through two unchangeable things, in which it was not possible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, those having fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

³¹ but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

⁶ who also made us able ministers of a new covenant, not of letter, but of Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, ² to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ in Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying continually about you, ⁴ hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love toward all the saints, ⁵ because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel, ⁶ coming to you, as also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit even also among you, from the day in which you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; ⁷ even as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-slave, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you, ⁸ he also showing to us your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this cause also, from the day in which we heard, we do not cease praying on your behalf, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ for you to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God; ¹¹ being empowered with all power according to the might of His glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy; ¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light, ¹³ who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins; ¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation. ¹⁶ For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or rulers, or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ And He is before all things, and all things consist in Him. ¹⁸ And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He be preeminent in all things; ¹⁹ because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him, ²⁰ and through Him making peace by the blood of His cross, to reconcile all things to Himself; through Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in the heavens. ²¹ And you then being alienated and enemies in your mind by evil works, yet now He reconciled ²² in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without charge before Him, ²³ if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. ²⁴ who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up in my flesh the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ on behalf of His body, which is the church, ²⁵ of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God, ²⁶ the mystery having been hidden from the ages and from the generations, but now was revealed to His saints; ²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory; ²⁸ whom we announce, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man full-grown in Christ Jesus, ²⁹ for which also I labor, struggling according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

⁵ But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling in your faith with virtue; and virtue with knowledge; ⁶ and knowledge with self-control; and self-control with patience; and patience with godliness; ⁷ and godliness with brotherly love; and brotherly love with love. ⁸ For these things being in you, and abounding, they will make you not idle, not unfruitful in the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

² aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

⁷ He shall not be afraid of evil news; his heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.

² My brothers count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the proving of your faith works patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfective work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to the ones loving Him.

⁵⁸ So that, my beloved brothers, you be firm, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.