Perseverance
virtueEnduring faithfully through difficulty — holding fast to the very end.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Perseverance connects to different paths in Scripture:
Perseverance arises from Hope and Heaven, and leads to Sanctification.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”Jeremiah 29:11 →
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”2 Corinthians 3:18 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 18 verses
“The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.”
Read in context →“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”
Read in context →“If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?”
Read in context →“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Read in context →“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
Read in context →“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,”
Read in context →“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”
Read in context →“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”
Read in context →“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”
Read in context →“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
Read in context →“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:”
Read in context →“And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.”
Read in context →“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;”
Read in context →“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Read in context →“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”
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