Bible Verses About Determination
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for determination, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,451 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Determination
1 Corinthians 9:24-27434 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Philippians 4:13385 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
2 Timothy 4:7297 votes
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Jeremiah 29:11194 votes
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 15:4163 votes
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Ruth 1:16-18147 votes
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:
Romans 12:1-2104 votes
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.
Romans 8:35-3995 votes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Philippians 3:12-1492 votes
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.
Luke 9:6286 votes
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Hebrews 12:185 votes
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,
John 8:3281 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
2 Thessalonians 3:1369 votes
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
1 Peter 2:265 votes
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
John 7:1764 votes
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 50:762 votes
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.
Romans 12:1155 votes
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Daniel 1:853 votes
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.
Proverbs 16:352 votes
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
John 6:6351 votes
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Acts 17:24-2849 votes
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;
2 Timothy 3:16-1749 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Psalms 27:1448 votes
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Matthew 22:2945 votes
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
John 12:4845 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about determination?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 on the subject of determination. Across 4,451 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Philippians 4:13, 2 Timothy 4:7, Jeremiah 29:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.