Bible Verses About Patience & Perseverance
Patience is the slow work God does in us through trials we would never choose. Scripture reframes suffering as the soil where endurance, character, and hope grow. These verses encourage you to keep going and not grow weary, trusting that the harvest comes in due season.
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope."
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
"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."
"Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."
"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer."