Determination

Top verses

Ranked by readers’ votes at OpenBible.info.

• 1 Corinthians 9:24–27

  Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: …

• Philippians 4:13

  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• 2 Timothy 4:7

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

• Jeremiah 29:11

  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

• Romans 15:4

  For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

• Ruth 1:16–18

  And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

• Romans 12:1–2

  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

• Romans 8:35–39

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. …

• Philippians 3:12–14

  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

• Hebrews 12:1

  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,

• Luke 9:62

  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

• John 8:32

  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:13

  But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

• 1 Peter 2:2

  As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

• John 7:17

  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

• Isaiah 50:7

  For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

• Proverbs 16:3

  Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Romans 12:11

  Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

• John 6:63

  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

• 2 Timothy 3:16–17

  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

• Psalms 27:14

  Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

• Galatians 6:9

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

• Acts 17:24–28

  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; …

• Matthew 22:29

  Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

• John 12:48

  He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

• Acts 11:29

  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa:

• John 8:47

  He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

• Hebrews 4:12

  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

• Luke 1:37

  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

• Esther 4:16

  Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

• Proverbs 30:5–6

  Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

• 1 Corinthians 2:2

  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

• Zechariah 4:6

  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Proverbs 24:10

  If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

• Exodus 20:1–26

  And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. …

• Proverbs 2:7

  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

• Matthew 4:4

  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

• 1 Corinthians 15:57

  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• 2 Timothy 1:12

  For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.