Quotes About Perseverance

“Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”

For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. And the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.

But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.

Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”

After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.