Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
God does not promise salvation to those who fail to endure in the tests which are surely coming upon the people of the earth. So don't give up! (See Mark 13:13, Matthew 10:22
Heb 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
We need to keep doing the will of God to be saved. If we don't have endurance, we cannot receive the promises of God concerning salvation or anything else. It is true that God gives us new chances to start again so many times, but it is also true that a time will come for us when endurance is essential to our receiving of God's promises. So its better to learn endurance now.
Heb 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Life is a race and it will be painful at times. Endurance means keeping on going when we are hurting and our bodies would rather quit!
Heb 12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
Every true son of God has to endure chastening. It means that God will cause us pain in order to get us to change. We have to endure, meaning not give up on God, in the midst of our pain.
2Ti 4:5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
To fulfil the work of the ministry, we have to endure the afflictions that come along in the path of doing the will of God. And there will be some. One of them is found in the very act of "watchfulness" - which means denying ourselves sleep and staying alert even when we'd rather not.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
This implies that the truth of sound doctrine is not always according to our desires. Sound doctrine causes pain to carnally minded "believers" and the time will come, and I believe has come already, when such people will not endure it. They prefer to find teachers to tell them what is agreeable to their minds. But we have to endure the truth, even when it hurts and sentences the flesh to death.
2Ti 2:12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
We will not reign in this life or the next with Christ if we do not learn to endure.
2Ti 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the s
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