Bible verses about "perserverance" | Lamsa

⁸ Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace so that by faith you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹ I WOULD that you knew how I struggled for your sakes and for the sake of those who are at La-od-i-ceÆa, and for the rest who have not seen me personally; ² That their hearts may be comforted, and that they may be brought near by love to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, the Father, and of Christ, ³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ And I say this, so that no man may beguile you with enticing words. ⁵ For though I am far away from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your orderliness and the sincerity of your faith in Christ. ⁶ Just as you have therefore accepted Jesus Christ our LORD, so you must be led by him: ⁷ Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware lest any man mislead you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the teaching of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ. ⁹ For in him is embodied all the fulness of the Godhead. ¹⁰ And it is through him that you also have been made complete, for he is the head of all angelic orders and powers: ¹¹ In whom also you are circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in putting off the sinful body by the circumcision of Christ: ¹² And you were buried with him in baptism, and by him you were raised with him, for you believed in the power of God who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who once were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has granted to live with him, and he has forgiven you all your sins; ¹⁴ And by his commandments he cancelled the written bond of our sins, which stood against us; and he took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; ¹⁵ And by putting off his mortal body, he exposed the powers of evil, and through his person put them openly to shame. ¹⁶ Let no man therefore create a disturbance among you about eating and drinking, or about the division of the feast days, the beginning of the months and the day of the sabbath: ¹⁷ These are shadows of things to come; but the main objective is Christ. ¹⁸ Let no man, by pretense of sincerity, doom you, so that you worship angels; for he is bold about the things he has not seen, and foolishly he is proud of his intellectual powers. ¹⁹ That very person does not uphold the Head by which the whole body is constructed and stands with the joints and members; and grows through the discipline of God. ²⁰ Therefore, if you have died with Christ and are apart from the principles of the world why then should you be doomed as though living in the world? ²¹ Do not touch; do not taste; do not follow; ²² For these things are customs which are changeable and they are the commandments and doctrines of men. ²³ And it appears there is some word of wisdom in these things when presented by the humble person in fear of God; provided they disregard the things of the flesh, not those things which are honourable but only those things which satisfy the pleasure of the flesh.

⁸ For it is by grace that you are saved through faith; not of your doing: it is the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who sees his face in a mirror; ²⁴ For he sees himself and goes his way, and forgets how he looked. ²⁵ But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and abides in it, is not merely a hearer of the word which can be forgotten but a doer of the work, and this man shall be blessed in his work.

³ See, therefore, how much he has suffered from the hands of sinners, from those who were a contradiction to themselves, lest you become weary and faint in your soul.

¹ MOREOVER, my brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, and which you have accepted, and for which you have stood firm; ² By which also you are saved if you keep in remembrance that very word which I have preached to you, and if your conversion has not been in vain. ³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I had also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; ⁴ And that he was buried, and that he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures: ⁵ And that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve: ⁶ After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once; of whom a great many are still living though some are dead. ⁷ And after that, he appeared to James; then to all the apostles. ⁸ And last of all he appeared to me also, ignorant and imperfectly developed as I was. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace that is in me has not been in vain; for I labored more abundantly than them all: yet not I, but GodÆs grace that is within me. ¹¹ Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preached and so you believed. ¹² Now if it is preached that Christ rose from the dead, how can some say among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ also has not risen: ¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then is our preaching in vain, and your faith is also in vain; ¹⁵ And we are also found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ when he had not raised him. ¹⁶ For if the dead rise not, then neither did Christ rise: ¹⁷ And if Christ did not rise, your belief is in vain; and you are yet in your sins. ¹⁸ And also, then, those who have died in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, then we are of all men most miserable. ²⁰ But now we know Christ is risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of those who have died. ²¹ For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. ²³ But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they who belong to Christ at his coming. ²⁴ Then will come the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. ²⁵ For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. ²⁶ And the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. ²⁷ For he has put all things under his feet. But when he said all things are put under him, it is clear that he, who put all things under him, is excepted. ²⁸ And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all. ²⁹ Else, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? ³⁰ And why do we continue to stand in danger every hour? ³¹ I swear by your pride, my brethren, which I have in our LORD Jesus Christ, I die daily. ³² If, after the manner of men, I were thrown to wild beasts at EphÆe-sus, what good would come to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. ³³ Do not be deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. ³⁴ Awake your hearts to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I say this to your shame. ³⁵ But some of you will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? ³⁶ Thou fool, the seed which you sow, is not quickened, except it die. ³⁷ And that which you sow is not the body that shall be, but the bare grain; it may chance to be of wheat or barley, or some other seed. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed, its own natural body. ³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes. ⁴⁰ There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory. ⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. ⁴⁶ Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the LORD from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. ⁵⁰ Now this I say, my brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵ O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.

¹³ But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

²⁴ Do you not know that the runners in a race, all run, but only one is victorious? So you must run, that you may obtain victory. ²⁵ And every man who battles in the contest, frees his mind from every thing else. And yet they run to win a garland which is perishable; but we to win one which is everlasting. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not for something that is uncertain; and I so fight, not as one who beats the air: ²⁷ But I conquer and subdue my body so that, by no chance, when I have preached to others, will I despise myself.

³ And not only so, but we also glory in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation perfects patience in us;

¹ THEREFORE, seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us; ² And let us look to Jesus, who was the author and the perfecter of our faith; and who, instead of the joy which he could have had, endured the cross, suffered shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁹ Let us not be weary in welldoing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.