The best Bible verses for endurance (NIV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for endurance (NIV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure."Isaiah 66:22
"“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure."Isaiah 66:22
"O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, “I am bringing a distant nation against you— an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand."Jeremiah 5:15
"But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath."Jeremiah 10:10
"Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, “This is my sickness, and I must endure it.”"Jeremiah 10:19
"When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became an object of cursing and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today."Jeremiah 44:22
"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”"John 6:27
"The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the Lord are sure and altogether righteous."Psalms 19:9
"The days of the blameless are known to the Lord, and their inheritance will endure forever."Psalms 37:18
"If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him."Psalms 55:12
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 (NIV) are Isaiah 66:22, Jeremiah 5:15, Jeremiah 10:10. 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 (NIV) 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 (NIV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.