Quotes About Perseverance

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

The true marks of an apostle—signs, wonders, and miracles—were performed among you with great perseverance.

And I hope you will realize that we have not failed the test.

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.

since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.