Bible Verses About Perseverance for Preparing for Death

"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"

"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:"

"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:"

"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain."

"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"

"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself."

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me."

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"