In times of trial and perseverance, believers are encouraged to remain steadfast and not lose heart. The apostle Paul writes in Galatians 6:9, urging Christians to continue doing good, even when the results are not immediately apparent. Joshua 1:9 and 2 Chronicles 15:7 also emphasize the importance of being strong and courageous, while Romans 12:11-12 advises against being slothful, but instead, serving the Lord with zeal and patience. Ultimately, as expressed in 2 Timothy 4:7, the Christian life is a long-distance race that requires finishing well, with faith and perseverance guiding the way.
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Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”
Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.