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100 Bible Verses about Never Giving Up

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 786 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Philippians 4:12-13 ESV / 762 helpful votes

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 663 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 583 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 455 helpful votes

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Ephesians 4:26-6:24 ESV / 404 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ...

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 350 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 293 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 219 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Psalm 71:14 ESV / 189 helpful votes

But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 142 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 126 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Matthew 18:12-13 ESV / 125 helpful votes

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

James 1:12 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Mark 11:25 ESV / 105 helpful votes

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 92 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 85 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Ephesians 3:18-19 ESV / 84 helpful votes

May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 83 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Psalm 86:12 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 81 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Psalm 25:15 ESV / 78 helpful votes

My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 71 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

James 3:16 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 3:7 ESV / 61 helpful votes

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 52 helpful votes

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Hebrews 12:12 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

1 John 4:7-12 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ...

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 46 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Corinthians 4:1 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

John 14:1-15:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 45 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...

Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Romans 12:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Psalm 59:12 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 41 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Hebrews 5:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.

2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 14:27 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Matthew 7:5 ESV / 39 helpful votes

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Psalm 56:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes

My enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV / 38 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 37 helpful votes

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Hebrews 6:11-12 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Isaiah 40:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

Hebrews 6:18-20 ESV / 33 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

John 3:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Luke 23:43 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Mark 1:41 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Psalm 31:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...

Isaiah 42:2-3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 26 helpful votes

One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Psalm 10:4-5 ESV / 26 helpful votes

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

1 John 1:6-7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

James 2:1-9 ESV / 25 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...

John 16:1-33 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ...

John 13:34-38 ESV / 25 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.” Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

Ezekiel 28:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 25 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

2 Chronicles 32:26 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Zechariah 12:8-10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

On that day the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, going before them. And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Proverbs 30:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Hebrews 13:21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 4:11-15 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

1 Corinthians 12:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes

That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

Romans 3:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 23 helpful votes

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Psalm 131:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

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