32 Bible Verses About Perseverance

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

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

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

And they journeyed from Beth–el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

And he put them all together into ward three days.

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

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

Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.

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 thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.

And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.