100 Bible Verses About Endurance

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath–jearim.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.

For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.

He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:

When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

Then Job answered and said,

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: