By your endurance you will gain your lives.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
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