Quotes About Endurance

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.

So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëThe jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.í”

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.

So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiahís eleventh year.

Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

I will establish his kingdom forever, if he resolutely carries out My commandments and ordinances, as is being done this day.í

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Then Jobís wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.