Finishing What you Start
10 passages
- Philippians 1:6
being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
Read it in context - Revelation 3:2
Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
Read it in context - 2 Corinthians 8:10–12
10And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire. 11Now finish the work, so that you may complete it with the same eager desire, according to your means. 12For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
Read it in context - John 4:34
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
Read it in context - Luke 14:28–30
28Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it? 29Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
Read it in context - Genesis 2:1–3
1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,
Read it in context - Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Read it in context - James 1:12
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
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