Are you struggling? Suffering? Being attacked? Feel like your ideas, thoughts, words don’t matter? Like no one cares, no one’s listening?
You’re not alone.
There’s so much suffering in the world right now. Seems like everyone is struggling with something.
So how do we keep our hope up, our spirit alive and well? How do we keep going when things are so tough?
Maybe you’re sitting there alone right now, wishing you weren’t. Wishing you weren’t feeling this pain that’s got a strong hold on your heart.
Maybe you’re grieving over the loss of someone. A friend, a sibling, a neighbor, a parent.
Maybe you just lost your job and you’re not sure what to do next. You have bills to pay. Where will the money come from? You have no idea how you’re going to make it through this one.
Listen…
For every single thing we deal with, Jesus Christ is there. He loves you today, tomorrow, and in the future. He loved you in the past, and He loves you now. He ALWAYS loves you. He’s ALWAYS there. He knows your pain, your suffering. He knows how you’re feeling, what you’re doing to try your hardest to make it through and He cares! The world may not care, that’s okay. Your Heavenly Father DOES!!!
Don’t give up. Just around the next bend, is shade in your weary walk. Use these 30 short Bible verses about perseverance to help you get through this trying time.
Write them on your heart, print them and put them all over your house, wherever you need a shot of encouragement. Remember, with God, you got this!!! ❤️
30 Short Bible Verses About Perseverance
1) Romans 5:3-4
“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,”
2) Proverbs 13:4
“The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.”
3) Galatians 6:9
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
4) Isaiah 40:28-29
“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.”
5) 2 Timothy 2:12
“If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;”
6) Matthew 10:22
“and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”
7) Romans 2:6-7
“He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;”
8) 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;”
9) Philippians 3:14
“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
10) James 1:2-4
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
11) Hebrews 12:1
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,”
12) 1 Corinthians 15:58
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
13) Romans 12:12
“Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.”
14) Hebrews 10:36
“For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.”
15) James 1:12
“Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.”
16) 1 Peter 5:10
“And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
17) 2 Thessalonians 3:13
“As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.”
18) Hebrews 11:27
“By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.”
19) Romans 8:25
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”
20) Revelation 2:10
“Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
21) Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
22) 1 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
23) Luke 9:62
‘Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”‘
24) Isaiah 40:31
“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
25) Hebrews 12:7
“It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?”
26) Psalm 46:1
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
27) 2 Timothy 4:7
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
28) Luke 21:19
“By your endurance you will gain your lives.”
29) Colossians 1:11
“Being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;”
30) Ephesians 6:11
“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.”