Bible verses about "perserverance" | MSTC

¹ I would ye knew what fighting I have for your sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my person in the flesh, ² that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ: ³ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ This I say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. ⁵ For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the spirit, joying and beholding the order that ye keep, and your steadfast faith in Christ. ⁶ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk rooted and built in him, ⁷ and steadfast in the faith, as ye have learned: and therein be plenteous in giving thanks. ⁸ Beware lest any man come and spoil you through philosophy and deceitful vanity, through the traditions of men, and ordinances after the world, and not after Christ. ⁹ For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, ¹⁰ and ye are complete in him, which is the head of all rule and power. ¹¹ In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcision made without hands, by putting off the sinful body of the flesh, through the circumcision that is in Christ, ¹² in that ye are buried with him through baptism, in whom ye are also risen again through faith, that is wrought by the operation of God which raised him from death. ¹³ And ye which were dead in sin through the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened with him and hath forgiven us all our trespasses ¹⁴ and hath put out the handwriting that was against us, contained in the law written, and that hath he taken out of the way, and hath fastened it to his cross, ¹⁵ and hath spoiled rule and power, and hath made a show of them openly, and hath triumphed over them in his own person. ¹⁶ Let no man therefore trouble your consciences about meat and drink: or for a piece of a holy day, as the holy day of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day: ¹⁷ which are nothing but shadows of things to come. But the body is in Christ. ¹⁸ Let no man make you shoot at a wrong mark, which after his own imagination walketh in the humbleness and holiness of angels, things which he never saw: causeless, puffed up with his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and holdeth not the head: whereof all the body by joints and couples receiveth nourishment, and is knit together, and increaseth with the increasing that cometh of God. ²⁰ Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say ²¹ "Touch not; Taste not; Handle not:" ²² which all perish with the using of them, and are after the commandments, and doctrines of men: ²³ which things have the similitude of wisdom in chosen holiness, and humbleness, and in that they spare not the body — and do the flesh no worship unto his need.

⁸ Though that prophesying fail, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge vanish away: yet love falleth never away.

¹³ The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may be rich in hope through the power of the holy ghost.

⁸ For by grace are ye made safe through faith, and that, not of yourselves: For it is the gift of God, ⁹ and cometh not of works, lest any man should boast himself.

²³ For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass. ²⁴ For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what his fashion was: ²⁵ but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein — if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work — the same shall be happy in his deed.

³ Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.

¹³ Brethren, be not weary in well doing.

¹ Brethren as pertaining to the gospel which I preached unto you, which ye have also accepted, and in the which ye continue; ² by the which also ye are saved — I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you — if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain. ³ For first of all, I delivered unto you that which I received: how that Christ died for our sins, agreeing to the scriptures, ⁴ and that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures, ⁵ and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve. ⁶ After that, he was seen of more than five hundred brethren at once: of which many remain unto this day, and many are fallen asleep. ⁷ After that appeared he to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸ And last of all he was seen of me, as of one that was born out of due time. ⁹ For I am the least of all the apostles, which am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God: ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me. ¹¹ Whether it were I or they, so have we preached, and so have ye believed. ¹² If Christ be preached, how that he rose from the dead: how say some that are among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there be no rising again of the dead: then is Christ not risen. ¹⁴ If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also in vain. ¹⁵ Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God. For we have testified of God how that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if it be so that the dead rise not up again. ¹⁶ For if the dead rise not again, then is Christ not risen again. ¹⁷ If it be so that Christ rose not, then is your faith in vain, and yet are ye in your sins. ¹⁸ And thereto, they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we believe on Christ, then are we, of all men, the miserablest. ²⁰ But now is Christ risen from the dead, and is become the first fruits of them that slept. ²¹ For by a man came death, and by a man came resurrection of the dead. ²² For as by Adam all die; even so by Christ, shall all be made alive, ²³ and every man in his own order: The first is Christ, then they that are Christ's at his coming. ²⁴ Then cometh the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God the father, when he hath put down all rule, authority, and power. ²⁵ For he must reign till he have put all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. ²⁷ "For he hath put all things under his feet." But when he saith, "All things are put under him," it is manifest, that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. ²⁸ When all things are subdued unto him: then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all things. ²⁹ Either, else what do they which are baptised over the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptised over the dead? ³⁰ Yea, and why stand we in jeopardy every hour? ³¹ By our rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. ³² That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die." ³³ Be not deceived: malicious speakings corrupt good manners. ³⁴ Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke. ³⁵ But some man will say, "How shall the dead arise? With what bodies come they in? ³⁶ Thou fool, that which thou sowest, is not quickened except it die. ³⁷ And what sowest thou? Thou sowest not that body that shall be: but bare corn - I mean either of wheat, or of some other - ³⁸ and God giveth it a body at his pleasure, to every seed a several body. ³⁹ All flesh is not one manner of flesh: but there is one manner flesh of men, another manner flesh of beasts, another manner flesh of fishes, and another of birds. ⁴⁰ There are celestial bodies, and there are bodies terrestrial: But the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹ There is one manner glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, an another glory of the stars. For one star differeth from another in glory. ⁴² So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, and riseth in incorruption. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonour, and riseth in honour. It is sown in weakness, and riseth in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, and riseth a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ As it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul," and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit: ⁴⁶ Howbeit, that is not first which is spiritual: but that which is natural, and then 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 that are earthy: And as is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have born the image of the earthy, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. ⁵⁰ This say I brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither doth corruption inherit uncorruption. ⁵¹ Behold, I show a mystery unto you: we shall not all sleep: but we shall all be changed, ⁵² and that in a moment, and in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall rise incorruptible: And we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility: and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When this corruptible hath put on incorruptibility: and this mortal hath put on immortality: then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death is consumed into victory." ⁵⁵ "Death where is thy sting? Hell where is thy victory?" ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be unto God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the works of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know how that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

²⁴ Perceive ye not how that they which run in a course, run all, yet but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain. ²⁵ Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air: ²⁷ but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

³ Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience,

¹ Wherefore let us also — seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses — lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the righthand of the throne of God.

⁹ Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.