16 Bible Verses on Enduring Hard Times, and the Word That Means Staying Put

The New Testament word for endurance means remaining under something, not getting through it. Hypomone is built from two parts — under, and stay — and it describes a position held rather than an activity performed. That is a different subject from coping, and it changes what these verses are offering. Nobody in them is promised an exit; they are told what it is possible to do while the weight is still there. The sixteen passages below follow that: the…