2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
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2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
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Exodus 15:26
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
Deuteronomy 11:13
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:22
For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
Zechariah 6:15
Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.” ’ ”
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Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Acts 24:16
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2:24
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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1 Corinthians 13:10
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
2 Corinthians 6:7
in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,
2 Corinthians 6:9
as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
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Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
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Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:5
Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Colossians 1:11
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,
2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
Revelation 1:9
I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
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Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
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John 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Colossians 1:6
which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,
Colossians 1:9
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
Titus 2:10
not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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Romans 2:6
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
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2 Peter 1:15
Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
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