Steadfastness
62 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
40 sections
- A Characteristic of Saints
- Caleb
- Colossians
- Commanded
- Corinthians
- Daniel
- David
- Exhibited by God in all his Purposes and Ways
- Godliness Necessary To
- Job
- Joshua
- Josiah
- Ministers: Encouraged By, in Their People
- Ministers: Exhorted To
- Ministers: Rejoiced By, in Their People
- Ministers: should Exhort To
- Ministers: should Pray For, in Their People
- Principle of-Illustrated
- Saints Praise God For
- Saints Pray For
- Secured by The Intercession of Christ
- Secured by The Power of God
- Secured by The Presence of God
- Secured by Trust in God
- Shadrach
- should be Manifested in Cleaving to God
- should be Manifested in Continuing in the Apostles' Doctrine
- should be Manifested in Holding Fast Our Profession
- should be Manifested in Holding Fast the Confidence and Rejoicing of the Hope
- should be Manifested in Holding Fast What is Good
- should be Manifested in Keeping the Faith
- should be Manifested in Maintaining Christian Liberty
- should be Manifested in Standing Fast in the Faith
- should be Manifested in Striving for the Faith of the Gospel
- should be Manifested in the Work of the Lord
- should be Manifested: Even Under Affliction
- The Christians
- The Wicked Devoid of
- Those Who Overcame Satan
- Want of-Illustrated
A Characteristic of Saints
Caleb
- Numbers 14:24 But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
Colossians
- Colossians 2:5 For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
Commanded
- Philippians 4:1 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you must stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brothers, stand firm and cling to the traditions we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.
- James 1:6–8 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. …
Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.
Daniel
- Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, …
David
- Psalm 18:21–22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. …
Exhibited by God in all his Purposes and Ways
- Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Daniel 6:26 I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.
- James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
Godliness Necessary To
- Job 11:13–15 As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him, …
Job
- Job 2:3 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me …
Joshua
- Joshua 24:15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are …
Josiah
- 2 Kings 22:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Ministers: Encouraged By, in Their People
- 1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.
Ministers: Exhorted To
- 2 Timothy 1:13–14 Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. …
- Titus 1:9 He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.
Ministers: Rejoiced By, in Their People
- Colossians 2:5 For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
Ministers: should Exhort To
- Acts 13:43 After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
- Acts 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
Ministers: should Pray For, in Their People
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
Principle of-Illustrated
- Matthew 7:24–25 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. …
- John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
- Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Saints Praise God For
- Psalm 116:8 For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
Saints Pray For
- Psalm 17:5 My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Secured by The Intercession of Christ
- Luke 22:31–32 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat. …
Secured by The Power of God
- Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Psalm 62:2 He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
- 1 Peter 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Jude 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy —
Secured by The Presence of God
- Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Secured by Trust in God
- Psalm 26:1 Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Shadrach
- Daniel 3:18 But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”
should be Manifested in Cleaving to God
- Deuteronomy 10:20 You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
- Acts 11:23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
should be Manifested in Continuing in the Apostles' Doctrine
- Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
should be Manifested in Holding Fast Our Profession
- Hebrews 4:14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
- Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
should be Manifested in Holding Fast the Confidence and Rejoicing of the Hope
- Hebrews 3:6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
- Hebrews 3:14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
should be Manifested in Holding Fast What is Good
- 1 Thessalonians 5:21 but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
should be Manifested in Keeping the Faith
- Colossians 2:5 For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
- 1 Peter 5:9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.
should be Manifested in Maintaining Christian Liberty
- Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
should be Manifested in Standing Fast in the Faith
- 1 Corinthians 16:13 Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
should be Manifested in Striving for the Faith of the Gospel
- Philippians 1:27 Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending together as one for the …
- Jude 3 Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.
should be Manifested in the Work of the Lord
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
should be Manifested: Even Under Affliction
- Psalm 44:17–19 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant. …
- Romans 8:35–37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? …
- 1 Thessalonians 3:3 so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
The Christians
- Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
The Wicked Devoid of
- Psalm 78:8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- Psalm 78:37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
Those Who Overcame Satan
- Revelation 12:11 They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
Want of-Illustrated
- Luke 8:6 Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture.
- Luke 8:13 The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
- John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
- 2 Peter 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
- Jude 12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.