Finishing

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

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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 herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. — read the full passage →

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. — read the full passage →

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? — read the full passage →

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →