The best Bible verses for endurance (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for endurance (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;"2 Timothy 2:12
"my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra — which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me."2 Timothy 3:11
"I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him."Ecclesiastes 3:14
"looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."Hebrews 12:2
"Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted."Hebrews 12:3
"It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?"Hebrews 12:7
"“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain."Isaiah 66:22
"Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say."Jeremiah 5:15
"But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation."Jeremiah 10:10
"Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, “Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it.”"Jeremiah 10:19
"The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day."Jeremiah 44:22
"Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”"John 6:27
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for endurance (ESV) are 2 Timothy 2:12, 2 Timothy 3:11, Ecclesiastes 3:14. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to endurance (ESV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for endurance (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.