What Does the Bible Say About Do Not Give Up?

James 1:2-4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Luke 18:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

Ephesians 3:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes

So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

Galatians 6:9-10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 12 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.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Luke 18:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Matthew 7:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Romans 6:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1 John 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

John 8:1-59 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ...

Luke 10:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

James 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

John 14:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ...

Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” ...

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 20:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

John 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

John 5:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

John 3:16-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Luke 14:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

Acts 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,

42 Bible Verses about Do Not Give Up

James 1:2-4 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 18:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 3:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:9-10 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 18:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 15:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:1-59 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 20:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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